El Nora Alila
El Nora Alila, also transliterated as, is a piyyut that begins the Ne'ilah service at the conclusion of Yom Kippur in Judaism. The piyyut is recited as part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi rites, and has been adopted by some religious Ashkenazi Jewish communities.
The English translation below is a lyric rendering, reproducing a rhyme similar to the Hebrew one. A more literal translation renders the title and recurring line as "God of awesome deeds". It consists of eight stanzas, each stanza consisting of four lines of five syllables to the line. Each line has three words, and the fourth line is always two words, "as Thy gates are closed at night". The closed gates are likely the gates of Heaven, where prayers of repentance are received, possibly also referencing the gates of the Temple in Jerusalem as described in Ezekiel 46:2. The hymn serves as a final, heartfelt plea for divine forgiveness during the last moments of the Day of Atonement. The initial letters of the eight stanzas of the piyyut spell out rtl=yes in reference to the piyyut's author, Moses ibn Ezra of Granada.