Mipi El

"Mipi El" (Hebrew: מִפִּי אֵל, romanized: Mippī ʾĒl, lit. '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.^[1] The song is sung in Ashkenazi communities during the fourth hakkafafah.^[2]

Poetic Structure

The poem is an acrostic, following a specific structure of each verse:

אֵין אַדִּיר כַּה' וְאֵין בָּרוּךְ כְּבֶן עַמְרָם.
אֵין גְּדוֹלָה כַּתּוֹרָה וְאֵין דּוֹרְשָׁהּ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל

After each verse, a refrain is sung: ^[3][4]מִפִּי אֵל יְבֹרַךְ כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל.