Rahum 'ad matai (Pizmon Rahoum Ad Mataï)

Pizmon composed by Rahamim Yosef Haim, a poet active in Jerusalem in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was printed for the first time in the collection Yagel Yaakov (Jerusalem, 1885) and thereafter in several collections of piyyutim. It also circulated among the Edirne Maftirim and was eventually printed in the Maftirim's collection Shirei Israel Be-Ereẓ Ha-Qedem (Istanbul, 1921, p. 79) under makam Muhayyer. Haim recorded only half of the text. The piece, in usul 16/4, ends with a long vocalization without clear beat.