Eleazar beRabbi Qallir, also known as Eleazar HaKalir, was a Byzantine Jewish poet whose Hebrew-language liturgical verses or piyyuṭim are sung during significant religious services, especially in the Nusach Ashkenaz rite, as well as in the Italian Nusach and well as the Romaniote rite.
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Street named after Qallir in Tel Aviv.![Tripartite Mahzor, ca. 1322, British Library, piyyut יפתח ארץ לישע by Qallir. The mahzor emphasizes some of the poetic patterns, such as the fourfold alphabetical acrostic, the incipits which form Deuteronomy 28:12 and Isaiah 55:10, and the word מים ending every first and third verse.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%97_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A2_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%94%22%D7%91_Add._22413_%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_138%D7%90_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%97_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A2_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%94%22%D7%91_Add._22413_%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_138%D7%90_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Tripartite Mahzor, ca. 1322, British Library, piyyut יפתח ארץ לישע by Qallir. The mahzor emphasizes some of the poetic patterns, such as the fourfold alphabetical acrostic, the incipits which form Deuteronomy 28:12 and Isaiah 55:10, and the word מים ending every first and third verse.[5]
from a Purim poem by Qallir, hanging of the sons of Haman, Leipzig MahzorWriters born in the 600s 6
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Eleazar beRabbi Qallir, also known as Eleazar HaKalir, was a Byzantine Jewish poet whose Hebrew-language liturgical verses or piyyuṭim are sung during significant religious services, especially in the Nusach Ashkenaz rite, as well as in the Italian Nusach and well as the Romaniote rite. In particular, he wrote hymns for the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, for special Shabbats, for weekdays of festive character, and the fast days.
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