Dayanu in Different Genres
Dayenu (Hebrew:דַּיֵּנוּ)
is sung during Jewish holiday
of Passover.
The word "Dayenu" means approximately "it would have been enough."
This traditional song is over one
thousand years old. The earliest full text of the song occurs in the first
medieval haggadah
(9th century).
The song is a bespeaks gratitude to God for the gifts of the Jewish
people, (taking them out of slavery, giving them the Torah and Shabbat).
If God had given just one of these gifts, it would have still been enough. The
song appears in the haggadah after the telling of the story of the exodus.
This rendition is not intended to irreverent but stylistic.
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