Unetaneh tokef
Unetaneh tokef ( Hebrew: we want to describe the power of holiness of the day ) are the opening words of a piyyut that is read by Ashkenazi Jews in the synagogue during Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur . The prayer comes from Germany and probably goes back to the 10th century. Unetaneh Tokef goes back to the medieval legend about the Rabbi Amnon of Mainz . It is described for the first time in a copy of the late 13th century of the famous cabalistic work Sefer Or Zarua by Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (approx. 1180 - approx. 1250) (today in the Rosenthal Library , Amsterdam).
The seal is an integral part of the Ashkenazi Jews and the Tedesco Jews (German-speaking Jews in Italy) during the liturgy on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Settings
Leonard Cohen was inspired by this prayer for his song Who by Fire ; In the song contained on his 1974 album New Skin for the Old Ceremony , he tells extracts of the content of the prayer in its English version.
An earlier setting was made by Chasan Isaac Offenbach (father of Jacques Offenbach ).
Web links
- The first of the four parts of the Unetaneh tokef in Hebrew, transcribed, German and English
- Israel Yuval: Poems and History as a Last Judgment. Unetanne tokef, Dies irae and Amnon of Mainz. In: Kalonymos 2004/4, pp. 1-6.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonard Cohen: Who by Fire ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
