A Week To Rosh Hashanah

"Who by Fire" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1970s. It explicitly relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. In synagogues, the prayer is recited during the High Holy Days. The song was written after Cohen's improvised concerts for Israeli soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War. The song is sung as a duet with Jewish-American singer Janis Ian. It was included on Cohen's 1974 album New Skin for the Old Ceremony.