Avinu Malkeinu

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High Holy Day prayer Jewish prayer

Avinu Malkeinu is a central Jewish High Holy Day prayer, especially associated with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in which worshippers repeatedly address God as “Our Father, Our King” to seek mercy, forgiveness, and compassion.

Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
"Avinu Malkeinu" ("Our Father, Our King")	1
Avinu Malkeinu in many communities	1
Avinu Malkeinu in some communities	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	High Holy Day prayer ⓘ Jewish prayer ⓘ
addressTo	God ⓘ
associatedWith	Ten Days of Repentance ⓘ surface form: Days of Awe Selichot ⓘ
attributedTo	Rabbi Akiva ⓘ surface form: Rabbi Akiva (traditional attribution)
audience	Jewish worshippers ⓘ
category	High Holy Day liturgy ⓘ Jewish liturgical poetry ⓘ
emotionalTone	hopeful ⓘ penitential ⓘ urgent ⓘ
function	communal prayer ⓘ personal supplication within communal framework ⓘ
invokesAttribute	Divine compassion ⓘ Divine forgiveness ⓘ Divine mercy ⓘ Divine sovereignty ⓘ
keyPhrase	"Avinu Malkeinu, choneinu va’aneinu" ⓘ "Our Father, Our King, be gracious to us and answer us" ⓘ
language	Hebrew ⓘ
liturgicalPosition	often recited after Amidah ⓘ often recited near end of service ⓘ
liturgicalStatus	piyyut ⓘ
liturgicalUse	Rosh Hashanah ⓘ Ten Days of Repentance ⓘ Yom Kippur ⓘ
musicalSetting	cantorial melodies ⓘ congregational melodies ⓘ
originPeriod	Talmudic era (attributed) ⓘ
recitationMode	often recited responsively ⓘ often sung by congregation ⓘ
refrain	Avinu Malkeinu self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: "Avinu Malkeinu" ("Our Father, Our King")
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
season	High Holy Day season ⓘ
structure	repeated invocation of God ⓘ series of petitions ⓘ
textualForm	multiple variant versions ⓘ
theme	Divine fatherhood ⓘ Divine kingship ⓘ compassion ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ mercy ⓘ repentance ⓘ supplication ⓘ
tradition	Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ surface form: Ashkenazi Sephardi Jews ⓘ surface form: Sephardi (some communities)
variantCount	dozens of individual petitions in some rites ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yamim Noraim → associatedPrayer → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

Aseret Yemei Teshuvah → associatedWith → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

Neilah → hasComponent → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

High Holy Days → liturgicalElement → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

Ten Days of Repentance → liturgicalFocus → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

Fast of Esther → prayerAddition → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

this entity surface form: Avinu Malkeinu in some communities

Fast of Gedaliah → prayerAdditions → Avinu Malkeinu ⓘ

this entity surface form: Avinu Malkeinu in many communities

Avinu Malkeinu → refrain → Avinu Malkeinu self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: "Avinu Malkeinu" ("Our Father, Our King")