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[HANASHIR:3956] Re: 2 questions about Dror Yikra

Dunash iben Labrat wrote in the 10th century and was the earliest poet to 
write "poems glorifying the sabbath which became popular as home-songs, 
called zemirot, which were sung at the meals on Friday evening, Sabbath noon, 
Sabbath afternoon..."  (from Jewish Music, by A.Z. Idelsohn)

An acrostic is a song or poem whose lines or stanzas or even words go in 
alphabetical order like adir hu or ashrei or reverse alphabetical order like 
"tikanta shabbat" in the musaph service.  I don't know if there's a name for 
starting lines with the letters of one's name.  maybe "seeking immortality"?? 
:)  

g'mar chatimah tovah
Raquel 

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