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‖ Yigdal Judaism.|ˈjɪgdəl|
Also 9 Yigdol.
[Heb., = ‘may he be magnified’, the opening word of the hymn.]
A Hebrew hymn, thought to have been composed by Daniel ben Judah (fl. c 1300), embodying the thirteen articles of the Jewish faith, and recited at morning prayer and on Sabbath and festival eves.
1845Jewish Chron. 19 Sept. 244/1 The children sang in a beautiful manner the hymn Yigdol (Sabbath Hymn). 1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. xii. 269 You confound the air of the Passover Yigdal with the New Year ditto. 1907J. Julian Dict. Hymnol. (ed. 2) II. 1149/2 The hymn [sc. The God of Abraham Praise] is a free rendering, with, as Olivers puts it, as decided ‘a Christian character’ as he could give to it, of the Hebrew Yigdal or Doxology, which rehearses in metrical form the thirteen articles of the Hebrew Creed. |