The Struggle for Beauty and Differentiation: Polemics Related to the Insertion of Liturgical Poetry into Fixed Prayer in Rabbinic Judaism

Abstract

The article addresses the opposition toward the insertion of liturgical poems into fixed synagogue liturgy among the rabbinic scholars. It identifies the motives behinf the opposition in different periods and regions.

Keywords

• Judaism
• synagogue liturgy
• liturgycal poetry
• piyyut
• rabbinic scholars