RT Article
T1 “On This Day, We Are Perfect”: Embodiment in Yannai’s Yom Kippur Qerova
JF The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
VO 30
IS 1
SP 37
OP 69
A1 Lieber, Laura S.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799698076
AB This article analyzes two poetic units within a much longer composition (translated in full here) composed by Yannai (6th c. CE, Galilee) for recitation on Yom Kippur. Specifically, it offers readings of Unit 8, which prefaces the third blessing of the Amidah (the Qedushah), and Unit 15, which concludes the work. Both units dwell on the physical experience of Yom Kippur and the ways in which ritual affects the body, permitting us to consider the role of “kinesthetic theology” (borrowing Kathryn Reklis’ coinage) – i.e., how physical expression and embodied experiences not only reflect but shape belief – in the composition.
K1 Yannai
K1 qerova
K1 Piyyut
K1 Liturgy
K1 Late Antiquity
K1 kinesthetic theology
DO 10.1163/1477285X-12341326