You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions Note: this book opens right-to-left

Note: this book opens right-to-left (the Semitic way)

the initial establishment and development of their institutions gave way to acculturation and gave rise to a flowering of literary creativity

Language: English (with Hebrew

religious practices and holy texts appeared in virtually every issue

El-Kodsi does a wonderful job integrating primary sources and personal experiences

You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions Note: this book opens right-to-leftThis volume presents for the first time an English translation and detailed analysis, together with the Hebrew original, of the poems for the weekly Torah portions composed by Rabbi Aaron ben Joseph, of thirteenth to fourteenth century Constantinople. Aaron ben Joseph was a central figure in medieval European Karaite Judaism. He was the redactor of the Karaite prayer book, and authored piyyutim, that is, poems used in the service, in that prayer book.