{{Short description|Jewish liturgical poem}} {{JewishMusic}} "'''Mipi El'''" ({{langx|he|מִפִּי אֵל|Mippī ʾĒl|From the Mouth of God}}), also known as "'''Mipi Kel'''", is an anonymous Hebrew Jewish ''piyyut'' (liturgical poem), sung during the Hakafot of Simchat Torah.<ref>{{cite book |title=משמרת הקדש |date=1847 |publisher=דפוס משה ישועה טובייאנא |location=Livorno |page=242 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/משמרת_הקדש/CQLNrKc2cMEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP242 |language=he}}</ref> The song is sung in Ashkenazi communities during the fourth hakkafafah.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nulman |first1=Macy |title=The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer: The Ashkenazic and Sephardic Rites |date=1 February 1996 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=978-1-4616-3124-8 |page=70 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclopedia_of_Jewish_Prayer/pbuPJeQyeskC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=encyclopedia+jewish+prayer&pg=PR11&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>
==Poetic Structure== The poem is an acrostic, following a specific structure of each verse:
אֵין '''אַ'''דִּיר כַּה' וְאֵין '''בָּ'''רוּךְ כְּבֶן עַמְרָם.<br/> אֵין '''גְּ'''דוֹלָה כַּתּוֹרָה וְאֵין '''דּ'''וֹרְשָׁהּ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל (There is none more awesome than Adonai and there is none more blessed than the Son of Amram. There is none greater than the Torah, and none more righteous than Israel)
After each verse, a refrain is sung: <ref>Or: יִתְבָּרַךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל, for example in the tradition of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai).</ref><ref name="NLI">{{cite web |title=מפי אל – מילים, פירושים וביצועים {{!}} מחבר לא ידוע {{!}} פיוט {{!}} הספרייה הלאומית – אתר הפיוט והתפילה |url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/piyut/Piyut1song_010030200000005171/NLI |website=www.nli.org.il |language=he}}</ref>מִפִּי אֵל יְבֹרַךְ כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל. (From God’s mouth, from God’s mouth, all of Israel shall be blessed)
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==External links== * [https://www.nli.org.il/he/piyut/Piyut1song_010030200000005171/NLI National Library of Israel recordings of Mipi El]
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