Few articles in this issue: Uri Ehrlich and Vered Raziel-Kretzmer | Prose or Poetry? - Clarifying the Eretz Israel Version of the ‘You Smote’ Passage in the Maʿariv Prayer Avi Shmidman | Did Palestinian Qinnot Serve as Seliḥot in the Babylonian Rite? Michael Rand | Interdigitated Piyyutim and the Principle of Polyphonic Performance in Late Eastern Piyyut Ophir Münz-Manor | Analog Piyyut in a Digital World: Towards Computational Study of Payytanic Literature Eden Hacohen | ‘God has made the one as well as the other’ ‒ Parallels and their Deconstruction in Piyyut Dalet of Yannai’s Qedushta’ot

The Yoṣerot of Rabbi Šelomo Suleiman Al-Sinjari for the Annual Cycle of Torah Reading is the earliest and most complete known Cycle of the Yoserot from the first century ACE, written by one of the most prominent Hebrew poets in the ninth century. This edition is based on hundreds of manuscripts originating in the Cairo Geniza. Its comprehensive scientific introduction presents the Yoser systems, discusses questions pertaining to the importance of the piyyutim and their designation, and describes the poet’s style and language. Further discussed in the introduction are early rituals of prayer and Torah reading, both Babylonian and Erez Israeli.