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Rav Daniel ben Yehuda Dayan, known in English sources as Daniel ben Judah, was a paytan who lived in Rome in the middle of the fourteenth century. He was the grandfather of Rav Daniel ben Shmuel HaRofe, who served as rav in Tivoli.
The Shadal — Rav Shmuel David Luzzatto — identified him as the author of the well-known piyut Yigdal Elokim Chai, which sets out the thirteen ikarei emunah that the Rambam fixed. Some differed with that identification, but Shadal’s view was broadly accepted. The piyut spread far and entered the minhagei tefillah: it stands at the opening of Shacharit among Ashkenazim, and Sephardim sing it at motzaei Shabbat and on yamim tovim, as well as in other settings. The Arizal, for his part, held against saying it.
Three short compositions of his have been recovered and printed: an explanation of the matter of the sa’ir la’azazel and the parah adumah, an explanation of the tefillah of Kedushah, and a brief piece on the creation of the sun and the moon.
במקום שהמסורות חלוקות. Some differ with Shadal's identification of him as the author of Yigdal, though it is generally accepted; English sources following Zunz place the completion of the piyut in 1404, later than the mid-fourteenth-century dating given for his lifetime.
דניאל בן יהודה דיין היה משורר יהודי, שחי ברומא באמצע המאה הארבע עשרה לספירה. הוא היה סבו של דניאל בן שמואל הרופא, שהיה רב בטיבולי.
Daniel ben Judah was a Jewish liturgical poet, who lived at Rome in the middle of the fourteenth century CE. He was the grandfather of Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe, rabbi at Tivoli.
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