Kol Beruey Maala u-Mata -

R. Solomon Ibn Gavirol

About the Piyut
This Piyut was written by Rabbi Solomon Ibn Gavirol, one of the great poets of the Spanish Jewish community
in the 11th century. This Piyut gained great popularity among all of the Sephardi communities and is sung at
various times. In the Italian tradition the poem is sung during the Selichot (Forgiveness) period preceding the
High Holidays. In a number of other communities (Persia, Kurdistan, Yemen, and more) it is recited as a
baqasha (request) during the Shacharit (morning) prayer service of the three pilgrimage holidays (Sukkot,
Pesach, and Shavuot). In all communities the Piyut is sung on Shabbat.

Hebrew Text
Kol bruey maala u-mata
yaidun yagidun kulam kechad
Adonai echad u-shmo echad
Shloshim u-shtayim ntivot shvilcha
lchol mevin sodam ysapru godlach
Mehem yakirun ki hakol shelcha

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v-ata ha-El ha-melech ha-myuchad

Lvavot bchoshcham olam banuy

yimtzu chol yesh biltcha shanui

Bmispar bmishkal ha-kol manui

kulam nitnu mero-eh echad

Me-rosh v-ad eyn sof yesh lcha siman
tzafon v-yam v-kedem v-teyman
Shachak v-tevel lcha ed neeman

mi-zeh echad u-mi-zeh echad

Ha-kol mimcha nizbad zavod

Atah taamod vhem yovdu avod

lachen kol lcha yiten kavod

ki merosh v-ad sof halo av echad

English Translation
All the creatures of earth and heaven
together as one bear witness in saying:
the Lord is One and One is his name
Your path has thirty-two courses
and all whom fathom Your mystery see them
an know in the mystery that is all Yours that You alone, O Lord, are king.
Hearts find, observing creation,
all-being-but-You knows variation in number and weight is all calibration
and all from a single shepherd derive.
From limit to limit Your signs exist north through south, east into west earth and sky for You to bear witness,
each in a way of its own
All flows from You in extension;
You endure through others exhaustion;
therefore all being honors Your splendor
from beginning to end, theres one Father alone.

Recording by the Hadass Pal-Yarden