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    Refa Tziri - Resource Sheet

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    A comprehensive resource page for this popular Piyut, sung traditionally on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. This page includes Hebrew and English text, as well as transliteration and a link to a recording.

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    A comprehensive resource page for this popular Piyut, sung traditionally on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. This page includes Hebrew and English text, as well as transliteration and a link to a recording.

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    Refa Tziri - Resource Sheet

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    Piyutnorth
    A comprehensive resource page for this popular Piyut, sung traditionally on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. This page includes Hebrew and English text, as well as transliteration and a link to a recording.

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    Refa Tziri -

    R. Refael Antebi
    About the Piyut
    In this Piyut we feel the pain of the poet and the people of Israel. He speaks of pain, suffering and affliction
    and pleads for mercy, healing and consolation. The request is not in the physical sense only but in the
    spiritual as well - give strength to my soul.
    The poet addresses God in a rather uncommon term - expert healer - and thus emphasizes the dependence
    of the individual and the nation God to heal the wounds of the exile and of the personal suffering. God is
    described as faithful, following the verse in Deuteronomy: Know, therefore, that only the Lord your God
    is God, the steadfast God who keeps His covenant faithfully.
    The Aram Tzuba tradition attributes this Piyut to R. Refael Antebi, the greatest poet among the Jews of
    Aram Tzuba whereas the Moroccan tradition claims it was written by the poet R. Refael Edrei, who lived in
    Morocco in the 20th century.

    Hebrew Text
    Refa tziri El neeman / ki ata rofeh uman
    At roshi shur chalshi / v-ten koach l-nafshi
    Ptach shaar ha-rachamim / ram shochen ba-mromim
    Al avdach sim chasdach / eyn mrachem biladach
    El chai tfilati / v-chusha l-ezrati
    Bi-mhera dror kra / lam ben ha-gvira

    English Translation
    Heal my pain O Loyal God

    for you are a skilled healer

    You lead me, You see my weakness

    and grant strength to my soul

    Open the gate of mercy

    High dweller of the heavens

    Upon your servant bestow your grace

    there would be no

    Oh Living God desire my prayer

    and hasten to my aid

    And speedily call for the redemption

    of the nation born to the Lady [Sara]

    Recording by the Piyut North America ensemble

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