“Yahh ‘Ezrati Min Shəmayya” was written by Ḥayyim Shaul Aboud, a 20th century sage who taught and wrote piyyutim. Many of R’ Aboud’s compositions were meant to be sung to popular Arabic melodies of his time. Therefore, this piyyut follows the verse-chorus pattern one would expect to see in popular music, and is often sung antiphonally (call-and-response.)

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“יָהּ עֶזְרָתִי מִן שְׁמַיָּא | Yah Ezrati Min Shemayya, a piyyut by Ḥayyim Shaul Abboud (ca. 20th c.)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Adam Zagoria-Moffet (translation)

Adam Zagoria-Moffet is the rabbi of St Albans Masorti Synagogue. He was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary where he also received an MA in Jewish Thought. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in Minnesota, New York, and Israel before moving to the UK. His interests are primarily in mysticism, ethics, and Sephardic Judaism and culture. He lives in St Albans with his family.

Ḥayyim Shaul Aboud

Ḥayyim Shaul Aboud (1890–1977) was a poet, rabbi, educator and a philanthropist. He authored Shirayi Zimra Ha-Shalem, containing baqashot of the Jewish community of Aleppo (halab or aram tsoba) as well as songs that he wrote himself. Rabbi Aboud was also the ounding director of "Nezer Aharon" school in Jerusalem.

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