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Zadok Amani () or Alamani () was a 12th-century Jewish liturgical poet. He wrote the following eight poems that are found in the Tripolitan Maḥzor: (1) ''El hekhal ḳodsho''; (2) ''Le-bet el banu''; (3) ''La-Adonai et yom ha-shevi'i berakh''; (4) ''Meḥolel kol be-ḳav yashar''; (5) ''Ezri yavi el me-'ayin''; (6) ''Al rov 'avoni''; (7) ''Ammekha le-shaḥarekha ḳamu''; and (8) ''Ki bo Elohim dibber be-ḳodsho''. No. 3 consists of thirteen
strophe A strophe () is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of var ...
s, and each of the others consists of five strophes. Nos. 3, 4, 7, and 8 are to be recited on the Sabbaths of the month of
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. Nos. 3 and 8 are both ''mustajabs''; in the former every strophe begins with "''la-Adonai''" and terminates with "''Adonai''," while in the latter the strophes begin with "''ki bo''" and rime in "''to''."


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