Addir ve-na'or (Adir ve nahor)

A pizmon based on the prophet Micah's account of God's delight in forgiveness (Micah 7:18-20), recited in all services on Yom Kippur. It forms an alphabetical acrostic comprising eleven short strophes, each one set forth two Divine attributes. The response to each strophe is Micah's words: Mi El kamokha - Who is like you O God! The version by Haim differs from the one widespread nowadays in most Eastern Sephardi synagogues. The first part of the melody in 3/4 recalls older melodies for this poem that were documented in the late nineteenth century among the Sephardi Jews in Italy and in Vienna.