That’s the question raised by a poem sung at many Ashkenazi services.
Prayer service at Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary. Nathan Benn/Corbis via Getty Images.
In many Ashkenazi synagogues, the concluding portions of the Sabbath morning service include the rhymed poem An’im Zmirot, known formally as “The Song of Glory,” a work distinguished by its ornate Hebrew and its shocking anthropomorphism.
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