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		<title>פיוט למוזיקאי קודם שיופיע &#124; A Performing Musician’s Piyut, by Alan Jay Sufrin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This piyut (liturgical poem) arose after a very meaningful performance of mine in the summer of 2000. It was such a powerful experience that I was moved to say a prayer of thanks to G-d for the opportunity to perform my songs for audiences – but found no such prayer in existence. So I wrote this one. It took about a year to complete and I’ve been saying it backstage right before my performances, and sometimes before recording sessions, since then.]]></description>
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This piyut (liturgical poem) arose after a very meaningful performance of mine in the summer of 2000. It was such a powerful experience that I was moved to say a prayer of thanks to G-d for the opportunity to perform my songs for audiences – but found no such prayer in existence. So I wrote this one. It took about a year to complete and I’ve been saying it backstage right before my performances, and sometimes before recording sessions, since then.</p>
<p>It draws mostly from musical references in Psalms, from the Kabbalat Shabbat liturgy, and from some other places in the Torah. The rhyme scheme repeats the sounds &#8220;or&#8221; and &#8220;ai,&#8221; which when spelled out in Hebrew, alludes to a mystical way of putting &#8220;the light of G-d&#8221; or possibly &#8220;my light.&#8221; The 613th mitsvah is for all Jews to write their own sefer Torah, and the way in which the Aybishter<span class="footnote_referrer"><a role="button" tabindex="0" onclick="footnote_moveToReference_6070_1('footnote_plugin_reference_6070_1_1');" onkeypress="footnote_moveToReference_6070_1('footnote_plugin_reference_6070_1_1');" ><sup id="footnote_plugin_tooltip_6070_1_1" class="footnote_plugin_tooltip_text">[1]</sup></a><span id="footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_6070_1_1" class="footnote_tooltip"> from Yiddish, meaning The Most High &#8212; Aharon Varady&nbsp;</span></span><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_6070_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_6070_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'center right', relative: true, offset: [0, 0], });</script>&nbsp; commands us is by calling the Torah &#8220;this Song&#8221; (See Deuteronomy 31:19). It’s as if to say that G-d is a songwriter, and the Torah (also called &#8220;Orayta&#8221;) is G-d’s song. The hope of this piyut is to draw musical energy from this G-dly Source, and is noted in the piyut itself as well.</p>
<p>It is intended for performing musicians to say or on which to meditate before performances of their own original works, but other appropriate uses are also encouraged.
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הַחֽוֹנֵן לְדָוִיד מִזְמוֹר,‏<br />
הַנֽוֹתֵן שִיר לְבֶן־יִשַי בְחַסְדוֹ הוּא יַעֲזֹר,‏<br />
וּשְכִינָתוֹ יִשְרֶה עָלַי
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שֶאֲזַמֵר בְקוֹל טָהוֹר,‏<br />
זְמִירוֹת טוֹבוֹת לֶאלֹהַי
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שֶבַח נֵבֶל וְעָשׂוֹר,‏<br />
לְהַלֵל בְשִׂמְחוֹתַי
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עֲלֵי הִגָיוֹן בְכִנוֹר,‏<br />
יְהִי בְרָכָה כָל תָו דְרָכַי
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אָז אָשִיר לוֹ כְמוֹ צִפּוֹר,‏<br />
לְיַיפּוֹת אֶת בִרְכוֹתַי
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יְשִישוֹ נָא בְנִי הַדוֹר,‏<br />
יָגִילוּ הֵם בְמַנְגִינַי
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לִרְנָנָה הוּא הַמָקוֹר,‏<br />
וְהוּא רֵאשִית לְכָל שִירַי
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שִיר שֶלוֹ הוּא שִיר שֶל אוֹר,‏<br />
יִפְתַח שִפְעוֹ אֶת שְׂפָתַי
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לִפְנֵי כִסְאוֹ זְכוּת וּמִישוֹר,‏<br />
קָהָל יָהּ יֵש לְפָנַי
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יְהִי רָצוֹן הָאֵל גִבוֹר,‏<br />
הַשּׁוֹמֵעַ תְפִלוֹתַי
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שֶכָל הַנְשָמָה תִזְכֹר,‏<br />
אַל תִשְכַח אֶת שְתֵי אוֹזְנַי
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שִירָה זֹאת אֹמַר לֵאמֹר,‏<br />
אָשִיר לָךְ כָל יְמֵי חַיַי
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<p><span class="hebrew" lang="heb-Hebr">פיוט למוזיקאי קודם שיופיע מאת חנן יהודה בן נתן נטע סופרין</span></p>
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<p>https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Alan-Jay-Sufrin_-_Performing-Musicians-Piyut.pdf</p>
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