Adir Hu

Adir Hu

Adir Hu (English: Mighty is He, Hebrew אדיר הוּא) is a hymn sung by Jews worldwide at the Passover Seder. It switches rapidly between saying the virtues of God in an alphabet format (Aleph, Bet, Gimmel,...), and expressing hope that God will "rebuild the Holy Temple speedily." Most of the virtues of God are adjectives (for instance, Holy (Kadosh) is he); however, a few are nouns. (Lord is he).

Adir Hu is sung towards the end of the Seder. The traditional melody is a bouncy, major one. [ [http://www.jewfaq.org/sound/adirhu.mid Standard version of Adir Hu] ] Other melodies, however, have been composed for the alphabetical song. [ [http://www.shircago.com/jewish-a-cappella-passover.php Adir Hu in 5/4] ]

History

The tune of Adir Hu has gone through several variations over the years, but its origin is from the German minnesinger period. The earliest existing music for Adir Hu is found in the 1644 "Rittangel Hagada". The second form is found in the 1677 "Hagada Zevach Pesach", and the third and closest form can be found in the 1769 "Selig Hagada". In the 1769 version of the haggadah, the song was also known in German as the "Baugesang" (the song of the rebuilding of the Temple). A traditional German greeting on the night of Passover after leaving the synagogue was "Bau Gut" ("build well"), a reference to Adir Hu.

Text

ee also

* Passover Seder
* Passover

External links

* [http://zemirotdatabase.org/view_song.php?id=117 Hebrew text, transliteration, translation from the Zemirot Database]

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