Shirei Tshuvah Central Reform Congregation, St. Louis -- Rabbi Daniel Bogard. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Pages 2 to 182 How this file is arranged. The page numbers here are this book's own folio numbers, counted from the front. Each prayer begins with a line giving its page number -- to jump there, search for the word page followed by the number, in lower case: for example, page 5. Where a prayer runs over more than one page, the extra numbers are listed on the lines just below, each marked continued, so a search for any page in the book lands on the prayer being said on it. Under each heading come the rubrics -- the standing, sitting and other directions -- each marked with two right angle brackets. Then the transliteration, one line to a line as it is sung. Then the English, under the word English. In the braille file the transliteration is uncontracted and the English is contracted, so that the Hebrew words read letter by letter. page 2 Candle Lighting A blessing for the new year L'shana tova tikatevu. English: May you be written for a good year. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel (Shabbat v'shel) yom tov. >> When the festival falls on Shabbat, add the words in parentheses. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who calls us toward holiness as we kindle the lights of (Shabbat and of) the festival day. page 2 Shehecheyanu Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, shehecheyanu v'kiy'manu v'higi'anu lazman hazeh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this moment. page 3 Bar'chu Barchu et Adonai ham'vorach. English: Bless the Eternal, Source of blessing. All Baruch Adonai ham'vorach l'olam va'ed. English: Blessed is the Eternal, Source of blessing, now and forever. page 4 Ma'ariv Aravim Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher bidvaro ma'ariv aravim, b'chochma poteach sh'arim, uvitvuna m'shaneh itim umachalif et haz'manim, umsader et hakochavim b'mishm'roteihem baraki'a kirtzono. Borei yom valayla, golel or mipnei choshech v'choshech mipnei or, uma'avir yom umevi layla, umavdil bein yom uvein layla, Adonai tz'va'ot sh'mo. El chai v'kayam tamid yimloch aleinu l'olam va'ed. Baruch ata Adonai, hama'ariv aravim. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who brings on evening with a word. Wisdom opens the gates of the sky; understanding turns the seasons, setting the stars in their courses across the dome of the heavens. Day becomes night, light rolling away before darkness and darkness before light, as day passes and night comes on -- a line drawn between them. Source of all being is that Name. Living and enduring God, unchanging through all time -- may that Oneness hold over us, now and forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who brings on the evening. page 5 Ahavat Olam Ahavat olam beit Yisra'el am'cha ahavta, Torah umitzvot, chukim umishpatim otanu limadta. Al ken Adonai Eloheinu b'shochveinu uvkumeinu nasi'ach b'chukecha, v'nismach b'divrei Toratecha uvmitzvotecha l'olam va'ed. Ki hem chayeinu v'orech yameinu, uvahem neh'ge yomam valayla. V'ahavatcha al tasir mimenu l'olamim. Baruch ata Adonai, ohev amo Yisra'el. English: With everlasting love You have loved the house of Yisrael, Your people -- teaching us Torah and mitzvot, the obligations and just ways that bind us to one another. And so, lying down and rising up, we will speak of what You ask of us and delight in the words of Your Torah -- bound to those who came before us, to those beside us, and most of all to those still to come. For they are our life and the length of our days; on them we will meditate day and night. May Your love never leave us. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who loves Your people Yisrael. page 6 The Sh'ma Sh'ma Yisra'el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel! The Eternal is our God, the Eternal alone. Baruch sheim k'vod malchuto l'olam va-ed. Baruch shem k'vod malchuto l'olam va'ed. -- Blessed is the Name of God's glorious reign, forever and ever. page 6 page 7 continued page 8 continued page 9 continued V'ahavta & Tzitzit V'ahavta V'ahavta et Adonai Elohecha, b'chol l'vavcha uvchol nafsh'cha uvchol m'odecha. V'hayu had'varim ha'eleh asher anochi m'tzav'cha hayom al l'vavecha. V'shinantam l'vanecha v'dibarta bam, b'shivt'cha b'veitecha uvlecht'cha vaderech, uvshochb'cha uvkumecha. Uk'shartam l'ot al yadecha, v'hayu l'totafot bein einecha. Uch'tavtam al m'zuzot beitecha uvish'arecha. English: You shall love the Eternal your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. The second paragraph V'haya im shamoa tishm'u el mitzvotai asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem hayom, l'ahava et Adonai Eloheichem ul'ovdo b'chol l'vavchem uvchol nafsh'chem. V'natati m'tar artz'chem b'ito, yoreh umalkosh, v'asafta d'ganecha v'tirosh'cha v'yitzharecha. V'natati esev b'sad'cha liv'hemtecha, v'achalta v'sava'ta. Hisham'ru lachem pen yifteh l'vavchem, v'sartem va'avadtem elohim acherim v'hishtachavitem lahem. V'chara af Adonai bachem, v'atzar et hashamayim v'lo yihyeh matar, v'ha'adama lo titen et y'vulah, va'avadtem m'hera me'al ha'aretz hatova asher Adonai noten lachem. V'samtem et d'varai eleh al l'vavchem v'al nafsh'chem, uk'shartem otam l'ot al yedchem, v'hayu l'totafot bein eineichem. V'limadtem otam et b'neichem l'daber bam, b'shivt'cha b'veitecha uvlecht'cha vaderech, uvshochb'cha uvkumecha. Uch'tavtam al m'zuzot beitecha uvish'arecha. L'ma'an yirbu y'meichem vimei v'neichem al ha'adama asher nishba Adonai la'avoteichem latet lahem, kimei hashamayim al ha'aretz. English: If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the Eternal your God and rendering service with all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil -- I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle -- and thus you shall eat your fill. Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them. For God's anger will flare up against you, shutting up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that God is assigning to you. Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, and teach them to your children -- reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up; and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates -- to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that God swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth. The third paragraph Vayomer Adonai el Moshe lemor: Daber el b'nei Yisra'el v'amarta alehem, v'asu lahem tzitzit al kanfei vig'deihem l'dorotam, v'natnu al tzitzit hakanaf p'til t'chelet. V'haya lachem l'tzitzit, ur'item oto uz'chartem et kol mitzvot Adonai, va'asitem otam, v'lo taturu acharei l'vavchem v'acharei eineichem asher atem zonim achareihem. English: God said to Moses as follows: Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner. That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all God's commandments and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your urge to stray. L'ma'an tizk'ru va'asitem et kol mitzvotai, vih'yitem k'doshim leloheichem. Ani Adonai Eloheichem, asher hotzeti etchem me'eretz Mitzrayim lihyot lachem lelohim, ani Adonai Eloheichem. English: Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God. I am the Eternal your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, your Eternal God. page 10 Emet v'Emunah Emet ve'emuna kol zot v'kayam aleinu, ki hu Adonai Eloheinu v'ein zulato, va'anachnu Yisra'el amo. Hapodeinu miyad m'lachim malkeinu, hago'aleinu mikaf kol he'aritzim. English: All this we hold true and faithful, binding upon us: there are no other gods other than HaShem above us, and we are Your people. May we be redeemed from the hand of kings; may we be freed from the grasp of every tyrant. Hasam nafsheinu bachayim, v'lo natan lamot ragleinu. English: Keep our souls amongst the living, and do not let our feet give way. Ha'oseh lanu nisim, vayotze et amo Yisra'el mitocham l'cherut olam. English: May there be wonders for us, and may we all be brought out from amongst our oppressors into lasting freedom. Hama'avir banav bein gizrei yam suf. V'ra'u vanav g'vurato, shib'chu v'hodu lishmo. L'cha anu shira b'simcha raba, v'amru chulam: English: You led us through the parted seas. Beholding that power, we praised and gave thanks, and with great joy we all sang out: page 11 Mi Chamocha The Song at the Sea Mi chamocha ba'elim Adonai, mi kamocha nedar bakodesh, nora t'hilot oseh fele. English: Who is like You among the mighty, O Source of freedom? Who is like You -- glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders! Malchut'cha ra'u vanecha, bokea yam lifnei Moshe uMiryam, zeh Eli anu v'amru: English: Your children beheld Your majesty as You split the sea before Moses and Miriam; "This is my God!" they answered, and said: Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. English: The Eternal will reign forever and ever. V'ne'emar: ki fada Adonai et Ya'akov, ug'alo miyad chazak mimenu. Baruch ata Adonai, ga'al Yisra'el. English: And it is said: the Eternal has redeemed Jacob, and set him free from a hand stronger than his own. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who redeemed Yisrael. page 12 Hashkivenu Hashkiveinu Adonai Eloheinu l'shalom, v'ha'amideinu shomreinu l'chayim, ufros aleinu sukat sh'lomecha, v'takneinu b'etza tova mil'fanecha, v'hoshi'einu l'ma'an sh'mecha. V'hagen ba'adeinu, v'haser me'aleinu oyev, dever v'cherev, v'ra'av v'yagon, uvtzel k'nafecha tastireinu, ki El shomreinu umatzileinu ata, ki El melech chanun v'rachum ata. Ushmor tzeteinu uvo'einu l'chayim ulshalom me'ata v'ad olam. Ufros aleinu sukat sh'lomecha. Baruch ata Adonai, hapores sukat shalom aleinu v'al kol amo Yisra'el v'al Yerushalayim. English: Allow us to lie down in peace, Eternal our God, and to rise in peace, protected to life. Spread over us a shelter of peace; set us right with good counsel, and help us for the sake of Your Name. Shield us: turn away from us the enemy, plague and sword, famine and grief. Hide us in the shadow of Your wings, for You are the One who guards and rescues us -- God, gracious and compassionate. Watch over our going out and our coming in, for life and for peace, now and forever. Spread over us Your shelter of peace. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who spreads a shelter of peace over us, over all Your people Yisrael, and over Yerushalayim. >> On Shabbat: V'shamru is at the back -- p. . page 13 Tik'u vaChodesh The Shofar Psalm Tik'u vachodesh shofar, bakeseh l'yom chageinu. Ki chok l'Yisra'el hu, mishpat lelohei Ya'akov. English: Sound the shofar at the new moon, when the moon lies hidden, for the day of our festival. For it is a law for Yisrael, a ruling of the God of Jacob. page 14 Chatzi Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. page 15 The Amidah Adonai, s'fatai tiftach, ufi yagid t'hilatecha. English: Adonai, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise. page 15 page 16 continued Avot v'Imahot Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak, ve'lohei Ya'akov; Elohei Sara, Elohei Rivka, Elohei Le'a, ve'lohei Rachel, Elohei Bilha, ve'lohei Zilpa. Ha'El hagadol hagibor v'hanora, El elyon, gomel chasadim tovim, v'koneh hakol, v'zocher chasdei avot v'imahot, umevi go'el livnei v'neihem l'ma'an sh'mo b'ahava. Ten Days of Awe Zochreinu l'chayim, melech chafetz bachayim, v'chotveinu b'sefer hachayim, l'ma'ancha Elohim chayim. Melech ozer umoshi'a umagen. Baruch ata Adonai, magen Avraham v'ezrat Sara. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, God of our ancestors -- God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob; God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Leah, God of Rachel, God of Bilhah, and God of Zilpah. Great, mighty, and awesome God, God Most High, who acts with love, who creates all, who remembers the faithfulness of our ancestors, and who lovingly brings redemption to their children's children for the sake of Your Name. Remember us for life, You who delight in life, and write us in the Book of Life -- for Your own sake, Source of life. You are our help, our rescue, our shield. Blessed are You, Eternal One, shield of Abraham and help of Sarah. page 17 G'vurot Ata gibor l'olam Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/meitim ata, rav l'hoshi'a. Morid hatal. M'chalkel chayim b'chesed, m'chayeh hakol/meitim b'rachamim rabim, somech nof'lim, v'rofe cholim, umatir asurim, umkayem emunato lishenei afar. Mi chamocha ba'al g'vurot, umi domeh lach, melech memit umchayeh umatzmi'ach y'shu'a. English: You are forever mighty; You give life to all / revive the dead, and Your saving power is great. You cause the dew to fall. You sustain the living with love, giving life to all / reviving the dead with great compassion; You hold up the falling, heal the sick, free the captive, and keep faith with those who sleep in the dust. Ten Days of Awe Mi chamocha av harachamim, zocher y'tzurav l'chayim b'rachamim. English: Who is like You, Source of mercy, who in compassion remembers Your creatures for life? V'ne'eman ata l'hachayot hakol/meitim. Baruch ata Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/hameitim. English: Who is like You, Source of all power? Who can compare -- You who bring death and life, and make rescue blossom? You are faithful to give life to all / to revive the dead. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who gives life to all / who revives the dead. page 18 K'dushat HaShem Ata kadosh v'shimcha kadosh, ukdoshim b'chol yom y'hal'lucha sela. English: You are holy, and Your Name is holy, and those who seek holiness praise You every day. page 18 page 19 continued page 20 continued Uv'chein Uvchein ten pachd'cha Adonai Eloheinu al kol ma'asecha, v'eimat'cha al kol ma shebarata. V'yira'ucha kol hama'asim v'yishtachavu l'fanecha kol hab'ru'im, v'ye'asu chulam aguda achat la'asot r'tzon'cha b'levav shalem. K'mo sheyadanu Adonai Eloheinu shehashilton l'fanecha, oz b'yad'cha ugvura biminecha, v'shimcha nora al kol ma shebarata. English: And so: set the awe of You, Eternal our God, over all You have made, and the awe of You over all You have created -- that every made thing hold You in awe and all creatures bow before You, and that they all become one company, to do Your will with a whole heart. For we know, Eternal our God, that the governing is Yours: strength in Your hand and power in Your right hand, and Your Name is awesome over all You have made. Uvchein ten kavod Adonai l'amecha, t'hila lire'echa v'tikva tova l'dor'shecha ufitchon peh lamyachalim lach. Simcha l'artzecha v'sason l'irecha, utzmichat keren l'David avdecha va'arichat ner l'ven Yishai m'shichecha, bimheira v'yameinu. English: And so: give honor, Eternal One, to Your people, praise to those who hold You in awe and good hope to those who seek You, and an open mouth to those who wait for You -- joy to Your land and gladness to Your city, and the flowering of new strength for the line of David Your servant, soon, in our own days. Uvchein tzadikim yir'u v'yismachu, visharim ya'alozu, vachasidim b'rina yagilu, v'olata tikpotz piha, v'chol harish'a kula k'ashan tichleh, ki ta'avir memshelet zadon min ha'aretz. V'timloch ata Adonai l'vadecha al kol ma'asecha, b'har Tziyon mishkan k'vodecha, uvirushalayim ir kodshecha, kakatuv b'divrei kodshecha: yimloch Adonai l'olam, Elohayich Tziyon l'dor vador, hal'luyah. English: And so: the just will see and be glad, the upright will rejoice, the faithful will delight in song -- and wrongdoing will shut its mouth, and all wickedness will vanish like smoke, when You clear the rule of arrogance from the earth. And You alone, Eternal One, will be the Oneness over all You have made, on Mount Zion, the dwelling of Your glory, and in Yerushalayim, Your holy city -- as it is written: The Eternal will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah. Kadosh ata v'nora sh'mecha, v'ein eloah mibal'adecha. Kakatuv: vayigbah Adonai tz'va'ot bamishpat, v'ha'El hakadosh nikdash bitzdaka. English: You are holy, and Your Name inspires awe, and there is no god but You -- as it is written: "the Source of all being is exalted through justice, and the holy God is hallowed through righteousness." (Isaiah 5:16) Baruch ata Adonai, haMelech haKadosh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, the holy Sovereign. page 21 page 22 continued page 23 continued K'dushat HaYom Ata v'chartanu mikol ha'amim, ahavta otanu v'ratzita banu, v'romamtanu mikol hal'shonot, v'kidashtanu b'mitzvotecha, v'keiravtanu malkeinu la'avodatecha, v'shimcha hagadol v'hakadosh aleinu karata. English: You chose us from among all peoples, and loved us, and wanted us; You lifted us up among all tongues and made us holy through Your mitzvot, and drew us near to Your service, and called Your great and holy Name over us. >> Motza'ei Shabbat: Vatodi'einu is at the back -- p. . Vatiten lanu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava (et yom haShabbat hazeh v') et yom haZikaron hazeh, yom (zichron) t'ru'a (b'ahava) mikra kodesh, zecher litzi'at Mitzrayim. English: And You gave us, Eternal our God, in love (this Shabbat day and) this Day of Remembrance -- a day of (the remembrance of) the shofar-blast (in love), a holy calling, a remembrance of the going-out from Egypt. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, ya'aleh v'yavo v'yagia v'yera'eh v'yeratzeh v'yishama v'yipaked v'yizacher zichroneinu ufikdoneinu, v'zichron avoteinu v'imoteinu, v'zichron mashiach ben David avdecha, v'zichron Yerushalayim ir kodshecha, v'zichron kol am'cha beit Yisra'el l'fanecha, lifleita l'tova, l'chein ulchesed ulrachamim, l'chayim ulshalom b'yom haZikaron hazeh. Zochreinu Adonai Eloheinu bo l'tova, ufokdeinu vo livracha, v'hoshi'einu vo l'chayim. Uvidvar y'shu'a v'rachamim chus v'chaneinu, v'rachem aleinu v'hoshi'einu. Ki eilecha eineinu, ki El melech chanun v'rachum ata. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: may there rise and come, reach and be seen, be wanted and heard, counted and remembered -- the remembrance of us and of our ancestors, and the remembrance of the anointed one of the house of David Your servant, and the remembrance of Yerushalayim Your holy city, and of all Your people the house of Yisrael -- for deliverance and good, for grace and love and mercy, for life and peace, on this Day of Remembrance. Remember us on it for good; take account of us for blessing; save us for life. And with a word of rescue and mercy, spare us and be gracious to us; have compassion on us and save us. For our eyes are turned to You -- You are God, gracious and merciful. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, m'loch al kol ha'olam kulo bichvodecha, v'hinasei al kol ha'aretz bikarecha, v'hofa bahadar g'on uzecha al kol yoshvei tevel artzecha. V'yeda kol pa'ul ki ata f'alto, v'yavin kol y'tzur ki ata y'tzarto, v'yomar kol asher n'shama v'apo: Adonai Elohei Yisra'el melech, umalchuto bakol mashala. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: let Your glory fill all the world; be lifted up over all the earth in Your splendor; shine out in the majesty of Your strength over all who dwell on the earth You made -- and let every made thing know that You made it, and every creature understand that You formed it, and all that breathes say: HaShem, God of Yisrael, is One, and that Oneness holds all things. (Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu r'tzeh vimnuchateinu.) Kad'sheinu b'mitzvotecha v'ten chelkeinu b'toratecha, sab'einu mituvecha v'samcheinu bishu'atecha, (v'hanchileinu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava uvratzon Shabbat kodshecha, v'yanuchu vo Yisra'el m'kad'shei sh'mecha,) v'taher libeinu l'ovd'cha be'emet, ki ata Elohim emet, ud'varcha emet v'kayam la'ad. Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: (Our God and God of our ancestors, take pleasure in our rest.) Make us holy through Your mitzvot and give us our portion in Your Torah; fill us with Your goodness and gladden us with Your saving help; (in love and favor, grant us Your holy Shabbat as our inheritance, and let Yisrael, who make Your Name holy, rest on it;) and make our hearts pure to serve You in truth -- for You are the God of truth, and Your word is truth, enduring forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One over all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. page 24 Avodah R'tzeh Adonai Eloheinu b'am'cha Yisra'el. Utfilatam b'ahava t'kabel b'ratzon, ut'hi l'ratzon tamid avodat Yisra'el amecha. El karov l'chol kor'av, p'neh el avadecha v'chaneinu. Sh'foch ruchacha aleinu, V'techezena eineinu b'shuvcha l'Tziyon b'rachamim. Baruch ata Adonai, hamachazir sh'chinato l'Tziyon. English: Take pleasure, Eternal our God, in Your people Yisrael and in their prayer; in love receive that prayer with favor, and may the service of Your people Yisrael always be, in truth, for the good. God near to all who call, turn to those who serve You, and be gracious to us. Pour out Your spirit upon us. May our eyes behold Your loving return to Zion. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who returns Your presence to Zion. page 25 Modim Modim anachnu lach, sha'ata hu Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu l'olam va'ed. Tzur chayeinu, magen yish'einu ata hu l'dor vador. Nodeh l'cha unsaper t'hilatecha, al chayeinu ham'surim b'yadecha, v'al nishmoteinu hap'kudot lach, v'al nisecha sheb'chol yom imanu, v'al nifl'otecha v'tovotecha sheb'chol et, erev vavoker v'tzohorayim. Hatov ki lo chalu rachamecha, v'hamrachem ki lo tamu chasadecha, me'olam kivinu lach. V'al kulam yitbarach v'yitromam shimcha malkeinu tamid l'olam va'ed. Uch'tov l'chayim tovim kol b'nei v'ritecha. V'chol hachayim yoducha sela, vihal'lu et shimcha be'emet, ha'El y'shu'ateinu v'ezrateinu sela. Baruch ata Adonai, hatov shimcha ulcha na'eh l'hodot. English: We thank You, for You are the One, our God and the God of our ancestors, forever. Rock of our life, shield of our rescue -- so You are, in every generation. We give thanks and tell Your praise: for our lives, held in Your hand; for our souls, entrusted to You; for Your miracles that are with us every day; and for Your wonders and Your gifts at every moment -- evening, morning, and noon. You are the Good, whose mercies never end; the Compassionate, whose kindnesses never fail, forever we have placed our hope in You. For all these things may Your Name be blessed and raised up, always and forever. And write down for a good life all the children of Your covenant. Let all that lives give thanks to You, and praise Your Name in truth, God of our rescue and our help. Blessed are You, Eternal One, whose Name is Goodness, and to whom thanks are due. page 26 Shalom Rav Shalom rav al Yisra'el am'cha tasim l'olam, ki ata hu melech adon l'chol hashalom. V'tov b'einecha l'varech et am'cha Yisra'el b'chol et uvchol sha'a bishlomecha. Ten Days of Awe B'sefer chayim, b'racha v'shalom, ufarnasa tova, nizacher v'nikatev l'fanecha, anachnu v'chol am'cha beit Yisra'el, l'chayim tovim ulshalom. Baruch ata Adonai, oseh hashalom. English: Grant abundant peace to Your people Yisrael forever, for You are the Source of all peace. May it be good in Your eyes to bless Your people Yisrael, in every season and at every hour, with Your peace. May we all be written in the book of life, for blessing, for peace, and for a good living: us, and all Your people, Yisrael, for a good life and for shalom. Blessed are You, Adonai, who calls us to create a world of peace. page 27 Elohai N'tzor Elohai, n'tzor l'shoni mera, usfatai midaber mirma, v'limkal'lai nafshi tidom, v'nafshi ke'afar lakol tihyeh. P'tach libi b'toratecha, uvmitzvotecha tirdof nafshi. V'chol hachosh'vim alai ra'a, m'hera hafer atzatam v'kalkel machashavtam. Aseh l'ma'an sh'mecha, aseh l'ma'an y'minecha, aseh l'ma'an k'dushatecha, aseh l'ma'an toratecha. L'ma'an yechal'tzun y'didecha, hoshi'a y'min'cha va'aneni. Yihyu l'ratzon imrei fi v'hegyon libi l'fanecha, Adonai tzuri v'go'ali. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me, let my soul stay silent; let my soul be humble as the dust before all. Open my heart to Your Torah, that my soul may pursue Your mitzvot. And all who plan evil against me -- quickly undo their designs and unravel their schemes. Act for the sake of Your Name; act for the sake of Your right hand; act for the sake of Your holiness; act for the sake of Your Torah. That those You love may be freed, let Your right hand save -- answer me. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Eternal One, my Rock and my Redeemer. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. >> On Shabbat: Vayechulu and Me'ein Sheva are at the back -- p. . page 28 page 29 continued Kaddish Shalem Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. Titkabel tz'lot'hon uva'ut'hon d'chol beit Yisra'el kodam avuhon di vishmaya, v'imru: Amen. English: Receive the prayers and pleas of all the house of Yisrael before the One in heaven -- and say: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 30 page 31 continued Aleinu >> Some bow at the word kor'im. Aleinu l'shabeach la'adon hakol, latet g'dula l'yotzer b'reshit, shelo asanu k'goyei ha'aratzot, v'lo samanu k'mishp'chot ha'adama; shelo sam chelkeinu kahem, v'goraleinu k'chol hamonam. Va'anachnu kor'im umishtachavim umodim, lifnei melech malchei ham'lachim, haKadosh baruch hu. English: It is upon us to acknowledge the Oneness of Creation, and to celebrate the majesty of it all -- we who were not made like the nations of the lands, nor set like the families of the earth; whose portion is not theirs, whose lot is our own. And so we bend, and bow, and give thanks before what is beyond every power, the Holy One of blessing. As it is written in the Torah Shehu noteh shamayim v'yosed aretz, umoshav y'karo bashamayim mima'al, ushchinat uzo b'govhei m'romim. Hu Eloheinu ein od, emet malkeinu efes zulato, kakatuv b'torato: v'yadata hayom vahashevota el l'vavecha, ki Adonai hu ha'Elohim bashamayim mima'al v'al ha'aretz mitachat, ein od. English: The heavens stretched wide, the earth set on its foundations, glory and strength filling the highest heights -- this is our God; there is no other. As it is written in the Torah: Know this day and take it to heart, that the Eternal is God in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other. Al ken n'kaveh l'cha Adonai Eloheinu, lir'ot m'hera b'tif'eret uzecha, l'ha'avir gilulim min ha'aretz, v'ha'elilim karot yikaretun, l'taken olam b'malchut Shaddai. V'chol b'nei vasar yikr'u vishmecha, l'hafnot eilecha kol rish'ei aretz. Yakiru v'yed'u kol yosh'vei tevel, ki l'cha tichra kol berech, tishava kol lashon. L'fanecha Adonai Eloheinu yichr'u v'yipolu, v'lichvod shimcha y'kar yitenu, vikab'lu chulam et ol malchutecha, v'timloch aleihem m'hera l'olam va'ed. Ki hamalchut shel'cha hi, ul'olmei ad timloch b'chavod, kakatuv b'toratecha: Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. V'ne'emar: v'haya Adonai l'melech al kol ha'aretz, bayom hahu yihyeh Adonai echad ushmo echad. English: And so we hope in You, the Eternal our God: soon to see the splendor of Your strength, when every idol and false god is swept from the earth, and the world is mended whole in the oneness of the Almighty. All who live will call on Your Name, and earth's wrongdoers will turn back to You. Let the world come to know that every knee bends and every tongue swears true before You. Before You, Eternal our God, may all bow low, honor Your Name, and take on together the obligation of Oneness, soon and always. All is Yours, and forever You endure in glory, as it is written in Your Torah: The Eternal will reign forever and ever. And it is said: the Eternal shall be sovereign over all the earth; on that day the Eternal shall be One, and the Name One. page 32 page 33 continued Mourner's Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 34 page 35 continued Psalm 27 L'David. Adonai ori v'yish'i, mimi ira? Adonai ma'oz chayai, mimi efchad? Bikrov alai m're'im le'echol et b'sari, tzarai v'oy'vai li, hema chashlu v'nafalu. Im tachaneh alai machaneh, lo yira libi; im takum alai milchama, b'zot ani voteach. English: Of David. The Eternal is my light and my rescue -- whom should I fear? The Eternal is the stronghold of my life -- whom should I dread? When evildoers close in on me to devour my flesh -- my foes, my enemies -- it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war rise up against me -- even then, I trust. Achat sha'alti me'et Adonai, otah avakesh: shivti b'veit Adonai kol y'mei chayai, lachazot b'no'am Adonai ulvaker b'heichalo. Ki yitzp'neni b'suko b'yom ra'a, yastireni b'seter oholo, b'tzur y'rom'meni. English: One thing I ask of the Eternal -- only this do I seek: to live in the house of the Eternal all the days of my life, to gaze on the sweetness of the Eternal, and to linger in that sanctuary. For on the day of trouble the Eternal will hide me in a sukkah, conceal me in the shelter of that tent, set me high upon a rock. V'ata yarum roshi al oy'vai s'vivotai, v'ezb'cha v'oholo zivchei t'ru'a, ashira va'azam'ra la'Adonai. English: And now my head is lifted high, above the enemies around me. In that tent I will bring offerings with shouts of joy -- I will sing, I will make music to the Eternal. Sh'ma Adonai koli ekra, v'choneni va'aneni. L'cha amar libi bak'shu fanai, et panecha Adonai avakesh. Al taster panecha mimeni, al tat b'af avdecha; ezrati hayita, al tit'sheni v'al ta'azveni, Elohei yish'i. English: Hear my voice, Eternal One, when I call; be gracious to me, and answer me. My heart hears You say: "Seek My face." Your face, Eternal One, is what I seek. Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger. You have been my help -- do not cast me off, do not abandon me, God of my rescue. Ki avi v'imi azavuni, va'Adonai ya'asfeni. Horeni Adonai darkecha, uncheni b'orach mishor, l'ma'an shor'rai. Al tit'neni b'nefesh tzarai, ki kamu vi edei sheker, vifeach chamas. English: Though my ancestors abandon me, the Eternal will gather me in. Teach me Your way, Eternal One; lead me on a level path, because of those who lie in wait for me. Do not hand me over to the will of my foes -- false witnesses have risen against me, breathing out violence. Lulei he'emanti lir'ot b'tuv Adonai b'eretz chayim. English: If I had not trusted that I would see the goodness of the Eternal in the land of the living -- Kaveh el Adonai, chazak v'ya'ametz libecha, v'kaveh el Adonai. English: Hope in the Eternal. Be strong, and let your heart take courage -- and hope in the Eternal. page 36 Birkat Kohanim Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, bar'cheinu bab'racha ham'shuleshet baTorah, hak'tuva al y'dei Moshe avdecha, ha'amura mipi Aharon uvanav kohanim am k'doshecha, ka'amur: English: Our God and God of our ancestors -- bless us with the threefold blessing of the Torah, written by the hand of Moses Your servant, spoken by Aaron and his sons, the priests, Your holy people, as it is said: Y'varech'cha Adonai v'yishm'recha. Ya'er Adonai panav eilecha vichuneka. Yisa Adonai panav eilecha v'yasem l'cha shalom. English: May the Eternal bless you and keep you. May the Holy One's face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May HaShem's face turn toward you and grant you peace. page 37 Adon Olam Adon olam asher malach, b'terem kol y'tzir nivra. L'et na'asa v'cheftzo kol, azai melech sh'mo nikra. V'acharei kichlot hakol, l'vado yimloch nora. V'hu haya v'hu hoveh, v'hu yihyeh b'tif'ara. V'hu echad v'ein sheni, l'hamshil lo l'hachbira. B'li reshit b'li tachlit, v'lo ha'oz v'hamisra. V'hu Eli v'chai go'ali, v'tzur chevli b'et tzara. V'hu nisi umanos li, m'nat kosi b'yom ekra. B'yado afkid ruchi, b'et ishan v'a'ira. V'im ruchi g'viyati, Adonai li v'lo ira. English: Eternal One of all, who was before any form was created; when all was made by Your will, then was Your name made known. And after all has ceased to be, You alone endure, beyond all awe. You were, You are, You will be in glory. You are One; there is no second to compare or set beside You. Without beginning, without end -- Yours is the strength, and Yours all that is. You are my God, my living Redeemer, my Rock in time of trouble; my banner, my refuge, the portion of my cup on the day I call. Into Your hand I entrust my spirit, when I sleep and when I wake; and with my spirit, my body too -- the Eternal is with me, I will not fear. page 38 page 39 continued page 40 continued Kiddush >> On Shabbat the Kiddush opens with Vayechulu -- p. . Blessing over the wine Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei p'ri hagafen. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine. Sanctifying the day Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher bachar banu mikol am v'rom'manu mikol lashon, v'kid'shanu b'mitzvotav. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who chose us from among all peoples, lifted us up among all tongues, and made us holy with Your mitzvot. Vatiten lanu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava (et yom haShabbat hazeh v') et yom haZikaron hazeh, yom (zichron) t'ru'a (b'ahava) mikra kodesh, zecher litzi'at Mitzrayim. >> The lines in parentheses are added when the first night falls on Shabbat. English: And You gave us, Eternal our God, in love, (this Shabbat day and) this Day of Remembrance -- a day of (the remembrance of) the shofar-blast (in love), a holy calling, a remembrance of the going-out from Egypt. Ki vanu vacharta v'otanu kidashta mikol ha'amim, ud'varcha emet v'kayam la'ad. Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: For You chose us and made us holy from among all peoples, and Your word is truth, enduring forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One over all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. On the second night -- Shehecheyanu Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, shehecheyanu v'kiy'manu v'higi'anu lazman hazeh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this moment. >> Motza'ei Shabbat: Havdalah, p. . a sweet year Y'hi ratzon mil'fanecha shet'chadesh aleinu shana tova umtuka. English: May it be Your will -- renew for us a good and sweet year. page 41 Hineni Hineni he'ani mima'as, nir'ash v'nifchad mipachad yoshev t'hilot Yisra'el. Bati la'amod ulhitchanen l'fanecha al am'cha Yisra'el asher sh'lachuni, af al pi she'eini k'dai v'hagun l'chach. English: Here I am -- poor in deeds, shaken and afraid before the One who dwells in the praises of Yisrael. I have come to stand and plead before You, on behalf of Your people Yisrael who have sent me -- even though I am not worthy of it, not the right one for this. Ki ata shomea t'filat am'cha Yisra'el b'rachamim. Baruch ata shomea t'fila. English: For You are the One who hears the prayer of Your people Yisrael in mercy. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who hears prayer. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hit'atef batzitzit. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who calls us toward holiness as we wrap ourselves in the fringed tallit. page 42 Hareini Hareini m'kabeil / m'kabelet alai mitzvat aseih shel v'ahavta l'reiacha kamocha. English: Before I say a word, I take this on: to love my neighbor as myself. Nothing I am about to pray, I pray alone. Leviticus 19:18 Lo tikom v'lo titor et b'nei amecha, v'ahavta l're'acha kamocha -- ani Adonai. English: Do not take revenge, and do not hold a grudge against the children of your people -- love your fellow as yourself: I am HaShem. page 42 Modah Ani Modah / Modeh / Modet ani l'fanecha, melech chai v'kayam, shehechezarta bi nishmati b'chemla -- raba emunatecha. English: I am grateful before You, who live and endure -- You have returned my soul to me in mercy. How great is Your faithfulness. page 43 Mah Tovu Mah tovu ohalecha Ya'akov, mishk'notecha Yisra'el. English: How good are your tents, Jacob -- your dwelling-places, Yisrael! Va'ani b'rov chasd'cha avo veitecha, eshtachaveh el heichal kodsh'cha b'yir'atecha. English: As for me: in Your abundant love I enter Your house; I bow toward Your holy sanctuary, in awe of You. Adonai, ahavti m'on beitecha, umkom mishkan k'vodecha. English: Eternal One, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory rests. Va'ani eshtachaveh v'echra'a, evr'cha lifnei Adonai osi. English: And I -- I bow, I bend low, I kneel before the Eternal, my Maker. Va'ani t'filati l'cha Adonai et ratzon, Elohim b'rov chasdecha, aneni be'emet yish'echa. English: As for me -- let my prayer come to You, Eternal One, in a time of favor. God, in Your abundant love, answer me with the truth of Your rescue. page 44 Asher Yatzar Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher yatzar et ha'adam b'chochma, uvara vo n'kavim n'kavim, chalulim chalulim. Galuy v'yadua lifnei chise ch'vodecha, she'im yipateach echad mehem o yisatem echad mehem, i efshar l'hitkayem v'la'amod l'fanecha afilu sha'a echat. Baruch ata Adonai, rofe chol basar umafli la'asot. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who formed the human being with wisdom and created in the body openings upon openings, hollows upon hollows. It is revealed and known before the throne of Your glory that if one of them were to open, or one of them to close, it would be impossible to endure and to stand before You even a single hour. Blessed are You, Eternal One, healer of all flesh, who works wonders. page 45 Elohai N'shamah Elohai, n'shama shenatata bi t'hora hi. Ata v'ratah, ata y'tzartah, ata n'fachtah bi, v'ata m'sham'rah b'kirbi, v'ata atid lit'lah mimeni ulhachazirah bi le'atid lavo. Kol z'man shehan'shama b'kirbi, modah / modeh / modet ani l'fanecha, Adonai Elohai ve'lohei avotai, ribon kol hama'asim, adon kol han'shamot. Baruch ata Adonai, hamachazir n'shamot lifgarim meitim. English: My God, the soul You placed within me is pure. You created it, You formed it, You breathed it into me; You keep it safe within me, and one day it will surely depart from me. As long as the soul is within me, I am grateful before You, Eternal my God and God of my ancestors, Source of all works and of all souls. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who restores souls to lifeless bodies. page 46 page 47 continued page 48 continued Birchot HaShachar Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher natan lasechvi vina l'havchin bein yom uvein laila. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who gave the rooster the sense to tell day from night. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, she'asani b'tzelem Elohim. English: ... who has made me in the image of the Eternal. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, she'asani ben / bat / bet chorin. English: ... who made me free. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, she'asani Yisra'el. English: ... who made me Yisrael. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, pokeach ivrim. English: ... who opens the eyes of the blind. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, malbish arumim. English: ... who clothes the naked. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, matir asurim. English: ... who frees the bound. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, zokef k'fufim. English: ... who lifts up the bent. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, roka ha'aretz al hamayim. English: ... who spreads the earth over the waters. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, hamechin mitz'adei gaver. English: ... who steadies a person's steps. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, she'asa li kol tzorki. English: ... who has provided me all I need. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, ozer Yisra'el bigvura. English: ... who gives strength to Yisrael. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, oter Yisra'el b'tif'ara. English: ... who adorns our world with beauty. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, hanoten laya'ef koach. English: ... who gives strength to the weary. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, hama'avir shena me'einai utnuma me'af'apai. English: ... who lifts sleep from my eyes and slumber from my eyelids. Vihi ratzon mil'fanecha Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, shetargileinu b'Toratecha v'dab'keinu b'mitzvotecha, v'al t'vi'einu lo lidei chet, v'lo lidei avera v'avon, v'lo lidei nisayon, v'lo lidei vizayon, v'al yishlot banu yetzer hara, v'harchikeinu me'adam ra umechaver ra, v'dab'keinu b'yetzer hatov uvma'asim tovim, v'chof et yitzreinu l'hishtabed lach, utneinu hayom uvchol yom l'chein ulchesed ulrachamim b'einecha uv'einei chol ro'einu, v'tigm'leinu chasadim tovim. English: May it be Your will, Eternal our God and God of our ancestors, to make us at home in Your Torah and to hold us close to Your mitzvot; keep us from wrongdoing, from transgression and guilt, from trial and from disgrace; let no harmful urge rule over us; keep us far from a bad person and a bad companion, and turn us toward the good, toward good deeds. Grant us today and every day grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us, and deal us kindness upon kindness. Baruch ata Adonai, hagomel chasadim tovim l'amo Yisra'el. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, who deals kindness upon kindness to the people Yisrael. page 49 Birkot HaTorah Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu la'asok b'divrei Torah. V'ha'arev na Adonai Eloheinu et divrei Toratcha b'finu uvfi am'cha beit Yisra'el, v'nihyeh anachnu v'tze'etza'einu v'tze'etza'ei am'cha beit Yisra'el kulanu yod'ei sh'mecha v'lom'dei Toratecha lishmah. Baruch ata Adonai, hamlamed Torah l'amo Yisra'el. Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher bachar banu mikol ha'amim v'natan lanu et Torato. Baruch ata Adonai, noten haTorah. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who calls us toward holiness as we immerse ourselves in the words of Torah. Make the words of Your Torah sweet, Eternal our God, in our mouths and in the mouths of Your people, the house of Yisrael -- so that we, and our children, and the children of Your people the house of Yisrael, may all come to know Your Name and to study Your Torah for its own sake. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who teaches Torah to the people Yisrael. Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who chose us from among all the peoples and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, Eternal One, giver of the Torah. page 50 Eilu D'varim Eilu d'varim she'ein lahem shi'ur: hapea, v'habikurim, v'hare'ayon, ugmilut chasadim, v'talmud Torah. Eilu d'varim she'adam ochel peiroteihen ba'olam hazeh v'hakeren kayemet lo la'olam haba: kibud av va'em, ugmilut chasadim, vahava'at shalom bein adam lachavero, v'talmud Torah k'neged kulam. English: These are the things that have no fixed measure: the corner of the field left for the poor, the first-fruits, the pilgrim's appearance at the Temple, acts of loving-kindness, and the study of Torah. And these are the things whose fruit a person enjoys in this world while the principal endures for the world to come: honoring our ancestors, acts of loving-kindness, and making peace between one person and another -- and the study of Torah, which equals them all. page 51 Baruch She'amar Baruch she'amar v'haya ha'olam. Baruch hu. Baruch oseh v'reishit. Baruch omer v'oseh. Baruch gozer umkayem. Baruch m'rachem al ha'aretz. Baruch m'rachem al hab'riyot. Baruch m'shalem sachar tov lire'av. Baruch chai la'ad v'kayam lanetzach. Baruch podeh umatzil. Baruch sh'mo. English: Blessed is the One who spoke, and the world came to be. Blessed is the One. Blessed is the Maker of beginnings. Blessed is the One who speaks and does. Blessed is the One who decrees and fulfills. Blessed is the One who has mercy on the earth. Blessed is the One who has mercy on all creatures. Blessed is the One who gives good reward to those who stand in awe. Blessed is the One who lives forever and endures for all time. Blessed is the One who redeems and rescues. Blessed is that Name. N'halelcha Adonai Eloheinu bishvachot uvizmirot, ungadelcha unshabechacha unfa'ercha, v'nazkir shimcha malkeinu Eloheinu. Yachid chei ha'olamim. Melech m'shubach umfo'ar adei ad sh'mo hagadol. Baruch ata Adonai, melech m'hulal batishbachot. English: With praises and with songs we praise You, Eternal our God -- we make You great, we laud You, we glorify You, and we call Your Name to mind, our God: the Only One, life of all the worlds -- lauded and glorified, whose great Name endures to the very end of time. Blessed are You, Eternal One, sung in praises. page 52 Psalm 121 Shir lama'alot, esa einai el heharim, me'ayin yavo ezri. Ezri me'im Adonai, oseh shamayim va'aretz. Al yiten lamot raglecha, al yanum shom'recha. Hineh lo yanum v'lo yishan, shomer Yisra'el. Adonai shom'recha, Adonai tzil'cha al yad y'minecha. Yomam hashemesh lo yakeka, v'yareach balaila. Adonai yishmorcha mikol ra, yishmor et nafshecha. Adonai yishmor tzeit'cha uvoecha, me'ata v'ad olam. English: A song for the ascents. I lift my eyes to the mountains -- where will my help come from? My help comes from the Eternal, maker of heaven and earth. HaShem will not let your foot give way; the One who guards you does not slumber. The Guardian of Yisrael neither slumbers nor sleeps. The Eternal is your keeper, the Eternal is your shade at your right hand. By day the sun will not strike you, nor the moon by night. The Eternal will guard you from all harm -- will guard your life. The Eternal will guard your going out and your coming in, from now and forever. page 52 Psalm 27 L'David. Adonai ori v'yish'i, mimi ira? Adonai ma'oz chayai, mimi efchad? English: Of David. The Eternal is my light and my rescue -- whom should I fear? The Eternal is the stronghold of my life -- whom should I dread? Achat sha'alti me'et Adonai, otah avakesh: shivti b'veit Adonai kol y'mei chayai, lachazot b'no'am Adonai ulvaker b'heichalo. English: One thing I ask of the Eternal -- only this do I seek: to live in the house of the Eternal all the days of my life, to gaze on the sweetness of the Eternal, and to linger in that sanctuary. page 53 page 54 continued page 55 continued Ashrei Ashrei yoshvei veitecha, od y'hal'lucha sela. Ashrei ha'am shekacha lo, ashrei ha'am she'Adonai Elohav. English: Happy are those who dwell in Your house; they never stop praising You. Selah. Happy the people for whom it is so; happy the people whose God is the One. T'hila l'David. Aromimcha Elohai hamelech, va'avarcha shimcha l'olam va'ed. B'chol yom avarcheka, va'ahalela shimcha l'olam va'ed. Gadol Adonai umhulal m'od, v'ligdulato ein cheker. Dor l'dor y'shabach ma'asecha, ugvurotecha yagidu. Hadar k'vod hodecha, v'divrei niflotecha asicha. Ve'ezuz nor'otecha yomeru, ugdulatcha asaprena. English: A song of praise, of David. I will lift You high, my God, my Sovereign, and bless Your Name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and praise Your Name forever and ever. Great is the One, and greatly to be praised; that greatness is beyond all searching out. One generation praises Your works to the next, and tells of Your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and Your wondrous deeds, I will meditate. They will speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will recount Your greatness. Zecher rav tuvcha yabi'u, v'tzidkatcha y'ranenu. Chanun v'rachum Adonai, erech apayim ugdol-chased. Tov Adonai lakol, v'rachamav al kol ma'asav. Yoducha Adonai kol ma'asecha, vachasidecha y'varchucha. K'vod malchutcha yomeru, ugvuratcha y'daberu. English: They will pour out the memory of Your abundant goodness, and sing of Your justice. Gracious and compassionate is the One, slow to anger and great in love. The One is good to all, and that mercy rests upon all creation. All Your works will thank You, and the faithful will bless You. They will tell the glory of Your reign, and speak of Your power -- L'hodia livnei ha'adam g'vurotav, uchvod hadar malchuto. Malchutcha malchut kol olamim, umemshaltcha b'chol dor vador. Somech Adonai l'chol hanoflim, v'zokef l'chol hak'fufim. Einei chol eilecha y'saberu, v'ata noten lahem et ochlam b'ito. Poteach et yadecha, umasbia l'chol chai ratzon. Tzadik Adonai b'chol d'rachav, v'chasid b'chol ma'asav. English: to make known to all people those mighty acts, and the glorious splendor of that reign. Your reign is a reign for all worlds, and Your rule endures through every generation. The One holds up all who fall, and lifts up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to You in hope, and You give them their food in its season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The One is just in all those ways, and faithful in all those deeds. Karov Adonai l'chol kor'av, l'chol asher yikra'uhu ve'emet. R'tzon y're'av ya'ase, v'et shav'atam yishma v'yoshi'em. Shomer Adonai et kol ohavav, v'et kol har'sha'im yashmid. T'hilat Adonai y'daber pi, vivarech kol basar shem kodsho l'olam va'ed. English: The One is near to all who call -- to all who call out in truth. The One fulfills the longing of those who are in awe, hears their cry, and saves them. The One watches over all who love, but all the wicked will be destroyed. My mouth will speak the praise of the One; let all flesh bless that holy name, forever and ever. Va'anachnu n'varech Yah, me'ata v'ad olam, hal'lu-Yah. English: And we will bless Yah, from now and forever. Halleluyah. page 56 Psalm 150 Hal'lu-Yah. Hal'lu-El b'kodsho, hal'luhu birkia uzo. Hal'luhu vigvurotav, hal'luhu k'rov gudlo. English: Halleluyah. Praise God in the holy place; praise the One in the vault of that strength. Praise for the mighty acts; praise for the greatness beyond all measure. Hal'luhu b'teka shofar, hal'luhu b'nevel v'chinor. Hal'luhu b'tof umachol, hal'luhu b'minim v'ugav. English: Praise with the blast of the shofar; praise with harp and lyre. Praise with hand-drum and dance; praise with strings and pipe. Hal'luhu b'tziltz'lei-shama, hal'luhu b'tziltz'lei t'ru'a. Kol han'shama t'halel Yah, hal'lu-Yah. English: Praise with clashing cymbals; praise with cymbals that ring out loud. Let all that breathes praise Yah. Halleluyah. page 57 Yishtabach HaMelech -- yoshev al kise ram v'nisa. English: The Sovereign sits -- on a high and lofty throne. Shochein ad marom v'kadosh sh'mo. V'chatuv: ran'nu tzadikim ba'Adonai, laysharim nava t'hila. B'fi y'sharim titromam, uvdivrei tzadikim titbarach, uvilshon chasidim titkadash, uvkerev k'doshim tit'halal. Uvmakhalot riv'vot am'cha beit Yisra'el, b'rina yitpa'ar shimcha malkeinu b'chol dor vador. English: The One dwells forever, exalted and holy is that name. And it is written: sing out, you just ones, to the One -- praise is fitting on the lips of the upright. On the mouth of the upright You are lifted up, in the words of the just You are blessed, on the tongue of the faithful You are made holy, and in the midst of the holy You are praised. And in the great gatherings of Your people, the house of Yisrael, in song Your Name is glorified, our Sovereign, in every generation. Yishtabach shimcha la'ad malkeinu, ha'El hamelech hagadol v'hakadosh bashamayim uva'aretz. Ki l'cha na'e Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu: Baruch ata Adonai, El melech gadol batishbachot, El hahoda'ot, adon haniflaot, habocher b'shirei zimra, melech El chei ha'olamim. English: May Your Name be praised forever -- the God, the great and holy One, in heaven and on earth. For to You, our God and God of our ancestors, all this is fitting: song and praise, chant and melody, strength and reach, endurance, greatness and power, glory and splendor, holiness and majesty -- blessings and thanksgivings, from now and forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One, great in praises, God of thanksgiving, Source of wonders, who delights in songs of praise, life of all the worlds. page 58 Chatzi Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. page 59 Bar'chu Barchu et Adonai ham'vorach. All Baruch Adonai ham'vorach l'olam va'ed. English: Bless the Eternal, Source of blessing. Blessed is the Eternal, Source of blessing, now and forever. page 59 page 60 continued Yotzer Or Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, yotzer or uvore choshech, oseh shalom uvore et hakol. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who forms light and creates dark, who makes peace and creates all things. Or olam b'otzar chayim, orot me'ofel amar vayehi. English: Light everlasting, held in the storehouse of life: out of the dark God said "light" -- and there was. Hame'ir la'aretz v'ladarim aleha b'rachamim, uvtuvo m'chadesh b'chol yom tamid ma'aseh v'reishit. Mah rabu ma'asecha Adonai, kulam b'chochma asita, mal'ah ha'aretz kinyanecha. English: You light the earth and those who live upon it, in mercy, and in Your goodness renew, each day, always, the work of creation. How many are Your works, Eternal One -- all of them made in wisdom; the earth is full of what You have made. Shimcha Adonai Eloheinu yitkadash, v'zichr'cha malkeinu yitpa'ar. Titbarach moshi'einu al shevach ma'asei yadecha, v'al m'orei or she'asita y'fa'arucha sela. English: May Your Name, our God, be hallowed, and the memory of You be glorified. Be blessed, our Deliverer, for the splendor of the work of Your hands; and for the lights of light that You made -- let them glorify You, Selah. Or chadash al Tziyon ta'ir, v'nizkeh chulanu m'hera l'oro. Baruch ata Adonai, yotzer ham'orot. English: May You shine a new light upon Zion, and may we all soon be worthy of its light. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who forms the lights. page 61 page 62 continued Ahavah Rabbah Ahava raba ahavtanu Adonai Eloheinu, chemla g'dola vitera chamalta aleinu. Avinu malkeinu, ba'avur avoteinu v'imoteinu shebat'chu v'cha vat'lam'dem chukei chayim, ken t'choneinu utlam'deinu. English: With abundant love You have loved us, Eternal our God; with great and overflowing tenderness You have cared for us. Avinu Malkeinu -- for the sake of our ancestors who trusted in You, and whom You taught the laws of life, be gracious to us, too, and teach us. Avinu ha'av harachaman, hamrachem, rachem aleinu, v'ten b'libeinu l'havin ulhaskil, lishmo'a, lilmod ullamed, lishmor v'la'asot ulkayem et kol divrei talmud Toratecha b'ahava. English: Merciful One, source of mercy, have mercy on us: put into our hearts the will to understand and discern, to listen, to learn and to teach, to keep and to do and to fulfill all the teachings of Your Torah, in love -- bound to those who came before us, to those beside us, and most of all to those still to come. V'ha'er eineinu b'Toratecha, v'dabek libeinu b'mitzvotecha, v'yached l'vaveinu l'ahava ulyir'a et sh'mecha, v'lo nevosh l'olam va'ed. Ki v'shem kodsh'cha hagadol v'hanora batachnu, nagila v'nism'cha bishu'atecha. English: Light up our eyes with Your Torah, hold our hearts close to Your mitzvot, and make our whole heart one -- to love and to hold in awe Your Name -- so we are never ashamed. For in Your great and awesome holy Name we have trusted; let us celebrate and rejoice in Your saving help. Vahavi'einu l'shalom me'arba kanfot ha'aretz, v'tolicheinu kom'miyut l'artzeinu, ki El po'el y'shu'ot ata, uvanu vacharta mikol am v'lashon, v'kerav'tanu l'shimcha hagadol sela be'emet, l'hodot l'cha ulyachedcha b'ahava. Baruch ata Adonai, habocher b'amo Yisra'el b'ahava. English: Bring us home in peace from the four corners of the earth, and lead us upright to our land -- for You are the God who brings rescue, and You chose us from every people and tongue, and You have drawn us near to Your great Name, in truth, to give thanks to You and to make You one, in love. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who chooses the people Yisrael, in love. page 63 The Sh'ma Sh'ma Yisra'el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel! The Eternal is our God, the Eternal alone. Baruch sheim k'vod malchuto l'olam va-ed. Baruch shem k'vod malchuto l'olam va'ed. -- Blessed is the Name of God's glorious reign, forever and ever. page 63 page 64 continued page 65 continued page 66 continued V'ahavta V'ahavta et Adonai Elohecha, b'chol l'vavcha uvchol nafsh'cha uvchol m'odecha. V'hayu had'varim ha'eleh asher anochi m'tzav'cha hayom al l'vavecha. V'shinantam l'vanecha v'dibarta bam, b'shivt'cha b'veitecha uvlecht'cha vaderech, uvshochb'cha uvkumecha. Uk'shartam l'ot al yadecha, v'hayu l'totafot bein einecha. Uch'tavtam al m'zuzot beitecha uvish'arecha. English: You shall love the Eternal your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. The second paragraph V'haya im shamoa tishm'u el mitzvotai asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem hayom, l'ahava et Adonai Eloheichem ul'ovdo b'chol l'vavchem uvchol nafsh'chem. V'natati m'tar artz'chem b'ito, yoreh umalkosh, v'asafta d'ganecha v'tirosh'cha v'yitzharecha. V'natati esev b'sad'cha liv'hemtecha, v'achalta v'sava'ta. Hisham'ru lachem pen yifteh l'vavchem, v'sartem va'avadtem elohim acherim v'hishtachavitem lahem. V'chara af Adonai bachem, v'atzar et hashamayim v'lo yihyeh matar, v'ha'adama lo titen et y'vulah, va'avadtem m'hera me'al ha'aretz hatova asher Adonai noten lachem. V'samtem et d'varai eleh al l'vavchem v'al nafsh'chem, uk'shartem otam l'ot al yedchem, v'hayu l'totafot bein eineichem. V'limadtem otam et b'neichem l'daber bam, b'shivt'cha b'veitecha uvlecht'cha vaderech, uvshochb'cha uvkumecha. Uch'tavtam al m'zuzot beitecha uvish'arecha. L'ma'an yirbu y'meichem vimei v'neichem al ha'adama asher nishba Adonai la'avoteichem latet lahem, kimei hashamayim al ha'aretz. English: If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the Eternal your God and rendering service with all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil -- I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle -- and thus you shall eat your fill. Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them. For God's anger will flare up against you, shutting up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that God is assigning to you. Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, and teach them to your children -- reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up; and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates -- to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that God swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth. The third paragraph Vayomer Adonai el Moshe lemor: Daber el b'nei Yisra'el v'amarta alehem, v'asu lahem tzitzit al kanfei vig'deihem l'dorotam, v'natnu al tzitzit hakanaf p'til t'chelet. V'haya lachem l'tzitzit, ur'item oto uz'chartem et kol mitzvot Adonai, va'asitem otam, v'lo taturu acharei l'vavchem v'acharei eineichem asher atem zonim achareihem. English: God said to Moses as follows: Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner. That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all God's commandments and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your urge to stray. L'ma'an tizk'ru va'asitem et kol mitzvotai, vih'yitem k'doshim leloheichem. Ani Adonai Eloheichem, asher hotzeti etchem me'eretz Mitzrayim lihyot lachem lelohim, ani Adonai Eloheichem. English: Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God. I am the Eternal your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, your Eternal God. page 67 page 68 continued page 69 continued Emet v'Yatziv Emet -- v'yatziv v'nachon v'kayam v'yashar v'ne'eman v'ahuv v'chaviv v'nechmad v'na'im v'nora v'adir umtukan umkubal v'tov v'yafeh hadavar hazeh aleinu l'olam va'ed. English: True and firm, and settled, and enduring; upright, faithful, beloved and dear, delightful and sweet, awesome and mighty, well-ordered and welcome, good and beautiful is this word for us, forever. Emet, Elohei olam malkeinu, tzur Ya'akov magen yish'einu. L'dor vador hu kayam ushmo kayam, v'chis'o nachon, umalchuto ve'emunato la'ad kayemet. English: True: the God of all time, the rock of Jacob, the shield that saves us. From generation to generation the Eternal endures, and that Name endures; unchanging, that oneness and that faithfulness stand fast, forever. Ud'varav chayim v'kayamim, ne'emanim v'nechemadim la'ad ul'olmei olamim. English: And the words of the Eternal are living and enduring, faithful and cherished, forever and to all eternity. Ashrei ish sheyishma l'mitzvotecha, v'torat'cha ud'var'cha yasim al libo. English: Happy is the one who listens to Your mitzvot, and takes Your Torah and Your word to heart. Emet, ata hu adon l'amecha umelech gibor lariv rivam. Emet, ata hu rishon v'ata hu acharon, umibal'adecha ein lanu melech go'el umoshia. English: True: You are the guide of Your people, mighty to take up their cause. True: You are the first and You are the last; besides You we have no one who redeems and saves. Mimitzrayim g'altanu Adonai Eloheinu, umibeit avadim p'ditanu. V'yam suf bakata, vididim he'evarta. English: From Egypt You redeemed us, HaShem our God, and from the house of bondage You set us free. You brought us through the Sea of Reeds, carrying the beloved across -- and we came out singing. Al zot shib'chu ahuvim v'rom'mu El, v'nat'nu y'didim z'mirot shirot v'tishbachot, b'rachot v'hoda'ot l'melech El chai v'kayam. Ram v'nisa, gadol v'nora, mashpil ge'im umagbiah sh'falim, motzi asirim ufodeh anavim, v'ozer dalim v'oneh l'amo b'et shav'am elav. English: For this the beloved praised and exalted God, offering songs and praises and thanksgiving to the living and enduring One -- high and lifted up, great and awesome, who brings down the proud and lifts up the lowly, frees the captive and redeems the humble, helps the poor and answers the people in the hour of their cry. T'hilot l'El elyon, baruch hu umvorach. Moshe uMiryam uvnei Yisra'el l'cha anu shira b'simcha raba, v'amru chulam: English: Praises to the Most High, blessed and praised. Moses and Miriam and the children of Yisrael sang to You, in great joy, and all of them said: page 70 Mi Chamocha The Song at the Sea Mi chamocha ba'elim Adonai, mi kamocha nedar bakodesh, nora t'hilot oseh fele. English: Who is like You among the mighty, O Source of freedom? Who is like You -- glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders! Shira chadasha shib'chu g'ulim l'shimcha al s'fat hayam, yachad kulam hodu v'himlichu v'amru: Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. English: A new song the redeemed sang to Your Name at the edge of the sea; together they gave thanks, called You One, and said: The Eternal will reign forever and ever. Tzur Yisra'el, kuma b'ezrat Yisra'el, ufdeh chin'umecha Y'huda v'Yisra'el. Go'aleinu Adonai tz'va'ot sh'mo, k'dosh Yisra'el. Baruch ata Adonai, ga'al Yisra'el. English: Rock of Yisrael -- rise up to Yisrael's help; make good on Your promise, and set Judah and Yisrael free. Our redeemer -- Source of all being is that name -- the Holy One of Yisrael. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who redeemed Yisrael. page 71 The Amidah Adonai, s'fatai tiftach, ufi yagid t'hilatecha. English: Adonai, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise. page 71 page 72 continued Avot v'Imahot Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak, ve'lohei Ya'akov; Elohei Sara, Elohei Rivka, Elohei Le'a, ve'lohei Rachel, Elohei Bilha, ve'lohei Zilpa. Ha'El hagadol hagibor v'hanora, El elyon, gomel chasadim tovim, v'koneh hakol, v'zocher chasdei avot v'imahot, umevi go'el livnei v'neihem l'ma'an sh'mo b'ahava. Ten Days of Awe Zochreinu l'chayim, melech chafetz bachayim, v'chotveinu b'sefer hachayim, l'ma'ancha Elohim chayim. Melech ozer umoshi'a umagen. Baruch ata Adonai, magen Avraham v'ezrat Sara. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, God of our ancestors -- God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob; God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Leah, God of Rachel, God of Bilhah, and God of Zilpah. Great, mighty, and awesome God, God Most High, who acts with love, who creates all, who remembers the faithfulness of our ancestors, and who lovingly brings redemption to their children's children for the sake of Your Name. Remember us for life, You who delight in life, and write us in the Book of Life -- for Your own sake, Source of life. You are our help, our rescue, our shield. Blessed are You, Eternal One, shield of Abraham and help of Sarah. page 73 G'vurot Ata gibor l'olam Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/meitim ata, rav l'hoshi'a. Morid hatal. M'chalkel chayim b'chesed, m'chayeh hakol/meitim b'rachamim rabim, somech nof'lim, v'rofe cholim, umatir asurim, umkayem emunato lishenei afar. Mi chamocha ba'al g'vurot, umi domeh lach, melech memit umchayeh umatzmi'ach y'shu'a. English: You are forever mighty; You give life to all / revive the dead, and Your saving power is great. You cause the dew to fall. You sustain the living with love, giving life to all / reviving the dead with great compassion; You hold up the falling, heal the sick, free the captive, and keep faith with those who sleep in the dust. Ten Days of Awe Mi chamocha av harachamim, zocher y'tzurav l'chayim b'rachamim. English: Who is like You, Source of mercy, who in compassion remembers Your creatures for life? V'ne'eman ata l'hachayot hakol/meitim. Baruch ata Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/hameitim. English: Who is like You, Source of all power? Who can compare -- You who bring death and life, and make rescue blossom? You are faithful to give life to all / to revive the dead. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who gives life to all / who revives the dead. page 74 page 75 continued page 76 continued page 77 continued Un'taneh Tokef Un'taneh tokef k'dushat hayom, ki hu nora v'ayom, uvo tinasei malchutecha, v'yikon b'chesed kisecha, v'teshev alav be'emet. English: Let us proclaim the power of today's holiness. How full of awe and dread it is. On this day what is beyond us comes into view: founded in love, and settled in truth. Emet ki ata hu dayan umochiach v'yodea va'ed, v'chotev v'chotem v'sofer umoneh, v'tizkor kol hanishkachot, v'tiftach et sefer hazichronot, ume'elav yikarei, v'chotam yad kol adam bo. English: It is true that nothing is hidden and nothing is lost: all of it known, all of it witnessed, written and sealed, counted and reckoned; even what we had forgotten is remembered. The book of remembrance opens, and it reads itself, for every human hand has signed it. Uvshofar gadol yitaka, v'kol d'mama daka yishama, umal'achim yechafezun, v'chil ur'ada yochezun, v'yomru: hineh yom hadin, lifkod al tz'va marom badin, ki lo yizku v'einecha badin. V'chol ba'ei olam ya'avrun l'fanecha kivnei maron. K'vakarat ro'eh edro, ma'avir tzono tachat shivto, ken ta'avir v'tispor v'timneh, v'tifkod nefesh kol chai, v'tachtoch kitzba l'chol b'riya, v'tichtov et g'zar dinam. English: A great shofar sounds, and a thin, whispering silence is heard. The angels rush, gripped by trembling and dread, and cry: here it is, the day of reckoning, a day to call the hosts of heaven to account, for even they are not innocent in Your eyes. Every being who enters the world passes before You like a flock, one by one. As a shepherd counts the flock, each one passing under the staff, so we pass before You -- and You count, and number, and take account of every living soul, mark out the measure of each life, and write out their decree. B'Rosh Hashanah yikatevun, uvyom tzom Kippur yechatemun. Kama ya'avrun, v'chama yibare'un. Mi yichyeh, umi yamut. Mi v'kitzo, umi lo b'kitzo. Mi vamayim, umi va'esh, mi vacherev, umi vachaya, mi vara'av, umi vatzama, mi vara'ash, umi vamagefa, mi vachanika, umi vaskila. Mi yanuach, umi yanua, mi yishakeit, umi yitaref, mi yishalev, umi yityasar, mi ya'ani, umi ya'ashir, mi yushpal, umi yarum. Ut'shuva ut'fila utz'daka ma'avirin et ro'a hag'zera. English: On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on the fast of Yom Kippur it is sealed: how many will pass, and how many will be born; who will live and who will die; who in their time, and who before it; who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by beast, who by hunger and who by thirst, who by earthquake and who by plague, who by choking and who by stoning; who will rest and who will wander, who will be at peace and who will be torn, who will be calm and who will be tormented, who will be poor and who will be rich, who will be brought low and who will be raised up. But t'shuvah, t'filah, and tzedakah will temper judgment's severe decree. Ki k'shimcha ken t'hilatecha, kasheh lich'os v'noach lirtzot, ki lo tachpotz b'mot hameit, ki im b'shuvo midarko v'chaya, v'ad yom moto t'chakeh lo, im yashuv miyad t'kablo. Ki ata hu yotz'ram v'yodea yitzram, ki hem basar vadam. English: For as Your Name is, so is Your praise -- slow to anger and easily reconciled; for You do not want the death of anyone who dies, but that they turn from their way and live. To the very last day You wait for them; the moment they turn, You welcome them back. For You are the one who formed them, and You know what they are made of -- that they are flesh and blood. Adam y'sodo me'afar v'sofo le'afar. B'nafsho yavi lachmo. Mashul k'cheres hanishbar, k'chatzir yavesh, uch'tzitz novel, k'tzel over, uch'anan kala, uch'ruach noshavet, uch'avak porei'ach, v'chachalom ya'uf. V'ata hu melech El chai v'kayam. English: A human being: dust at the start, dust at the end -- spending a life just to bring home bread. Like a broken shard, like withering grass and a fading flower, a passing shadow, a vanishing cloud, a gust of wind, a scatter of dust, a dream that flies off. -- And You: the living and enduring God, being that is always becoming. page 78 K'dushah Nekadesh et shimcha ba'olam, k'shem shemakdishim oto bishmei marom, kakatuv al yad n'vi'echa: v'kara zeh el zeh v'amar: All Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh Adonai tz'va'ot, m'lo chol ha'aretz k'vodo. Az b'kol ra'ash gadol adir v'chazak mashmi'im kol, mitnas'im l'umat s'rafim, l'umatam baruch yomeru: All Baruch k'vod Adonai mim'komo. Mim'komcha malkeinu tofi'a v'timloch aleinu, ki m'chakim anachnu lach. Matai timloch b'Tziyon? B'karov b'yameinu, l'olam va'ed tishkon. Titgadal v'titkadash b'toch Yerushalayim ircha l'dor vador ulnetzach n'tzachim. V'eineinu tir'ena malchutecha, kadavar ha'amur b'shirei uzecha al y'dei David m'shiach tzidkecha: All Yimloch Adonai l'olam, Elohayich Tziyon l'dor vador, hal'luyah. L'dor vador nagid godlecha, ulnetzach n'tzachim k'dushatcha nakdish, v'shivchacha Eloheinu mipinu lo yamush l'olam va'ed, ki El melech gadol v'kadosh ata. English: We make Your Name holy in the world as they make it holy in the heights of heaven, as Your prophet wrote: and they called out, one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy is the Source of all being; the fullness of the whole earth is that glory. Then, with the sound of a great roar, mighty and strong, they raise their voices, lifting toward the seraphim, and facing them say: Blessed -- Blessed is the glory of the Eternal, from its place. From Your place, appear to us -- for we are waiting for You. When will that day come to Zion? Soon, in our own days -- dwell there forever. Be magnified and made holy within Yerushalayim Your city, from generation to generation, for all time. May our own eyes see the world made whole, as the word is sung in the songs of Your strength, by the hand of David, Your anointed of justice: The Eternal will reign forever -- your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah. From generation to generation we will tell Your greatness, and for all time make holy Your holiness; Your praise, our God, will never leave our mouths, for You are a great and holy God. page 79 page 80 continued page 81 continued Uv'chein Uvchein ten pachd'cha Adonai Eloheinu al kol ma'asecha, v'eimat'cha al kol ma shebarata. V'yira'ucha kol hama'asim v'yishtachavu l'fanecha kol hab'ru'im, v'ye'asu chulam aguda achat la'asot r'tzon'cha b'levav shalem. K'mo sheyadanu Adonai Eloheinu shehashilton l'fanecha, oz b'yad'cha ugvura biminecha, v'shimcha nora al kol ma shebarata. English: And so: set the awe of You, Eternal our God, over all You have made, and the awe of You over all You have created -- that every made thing hold You in awe and all creatures bow before You, and that they all become one company, to do Your will with a whole heart. For we know, Eternal our God, that the governing is Yours -- strength in Your hand and power in Your right hand -- and Your Name is awesome over all You have made. Uvchein ten kavod Adonai l'amecha, t'hila lire'echa v'tikva tova l'dor'shecha ufitchon peh lamyachalim lach. Simcha l'artzecha v'sason l'irecha, utzmichat keren l'David avdecha va'arichat ner l'ven Yishai m'shichecha, bimheira v'yameinu. English: And so: give honor, Eternal One, to Your people, praise to those who hold You in awe and good hope to those who seek You, and an open mouth to those who wait for You -- joy to Your land and gladness to Your city, and the flowering of new strength for the line of David Your servant, soon, in our own days. Uvchein tzadikim yir'u v'yismachu, visharim ya'alozu, vachasidim b'rina yagilu, v'olata tikpotz piha, v'chol harish'a kula k'ashan tichleh, ki ta'avir memshelet zadon min ha'aretz. V'timloch ata Adonai l'vadecha al kol ma'asecha, b'har Tziyon mishkan k'vodecha, uvirushalayim ir kodshecha, kakatuv b'divrei kodshecha: yimloch Adonai l'olam, Elohayich Tziyon l'dor vador, hal'luyah. English: And so: the just will see and be glad, the upright will rejoice, the faithful will delight in song -- and wrongdoing will shut its mouth, and all wickedness will vanish like smoke, when You clear the rule of arrogance from the earth. And You alone, Eternal One, will be the Oneness over all You have made, on Mount Zion, the dwelling of Your glory, and in Yerushalayim, Your holy city -- as it is written: The Eternal will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah. Kadosh ata v'nora sh'mecha, v'ein eloah mibal'adecha. Kakatuv: vayigbah Adonai tz'va'ot bamishpat, v'ha'El hakadosh nikdash bitzdaka. English: You are holy, and Your Name inspires awe, and there is no god but You -- as it is written: "the Source of all being is exalted through justice, and the holy God is hallowed through righteousness." (Isaiah 5:16) Baruch ata Adonai, haMelech haKadosh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, the holy Sovereign. page 82 page 83 continued page 84 continued K'dushat HaYom Ata v'chartanu mikol ha'amim, ahavta otanu v'ratzita banu, v'romamtanu mikol hal'shonot, v'kidashtanu b'mitzvotecha, v'keiravtanu malkeinu la'avodatecha, v'shimcha hagadol v'hakadosh aleinu karata. English: You chose us from among all peoples, and loved us, and wanted us; You lifted us up among all tongues and made us holy through Your mitzvot, and drew us near to Your service, and called Your great and holy Name over us. Vatiten lanu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava (et yom haShabbat hazeh v') et yom haZikaron hazeh, yom (zichron) t'ru'a (b'ahava) mikra kodesh, zecher litzi'at Mitzrayim. English: And You gave us, Eternal our God, in love (this Shabbat day and) this Day of Remembrance -- a day of (the remembrance of) the shofar-blast (in love), a holy calling, a remembrance of the going-out from Egypt. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, ya'aleh v'yavo v'yagia v'yera'eh v'yeratzeh v'yishama v'yipaked v'yizacher zichroneinu ufikdoneinu, v'zichron avoteinu v'imoteinu, v'zichron mashiach ben David avdecha, v'zichron Yerushalayim ir kodshecha, v'zichron kol am'cha beit Yisra'el l'fanecha, lifleita l'tova, l'chein ulchesed ulrachamim, l'chayim ulshalom b'yom haZikaron hazeh. Zochreinu Adonai Eloheinu bo l'tova, ufokdeinu vo livracha, v'hoshi'einu vo l'chayim. Uvidvar y'shu'a v'rachamim chus v'chaneinu, v'rachem aleinu v'hoshi'einu. Ki eilecha eineinu, ki El melech chanun v'rachum ata. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: may there rise and come, reach and be seen, be wanted and heard, counted and remembered -- the remembrance of us and of our ancestors, and the remembrance of the anointed one of the house of David Your servant, and the remembrance of Yerushalayim Your holy city, and of all Your people the house of Yisrael -- for deliverance and good, for grace and love and mercy, for life and peace, on this Day of Remembrance. Remember us on it for good; take account of us for blessing; save us for life. And with a word of rescue and mercy, spare us and be gracious to us; have compassion on us and save us. For our eyes are turned to You -- You are God, gracious and merciful. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, m'loch al kol ha'olam kulo bichvodecha, v'hinasei al kol ha'aretz bikarecha, v'hofa bahadar g'on uzecha al kol yoshvei tevel artzecha. V'yeda kol pa'ul ki ata f'alto, v'yavin kol y'tzur ki ata y'tzarto, v'yomar kol asher n'shama v'apo: Adonai Elohei Yisra'el melech, umalchuto bakol mashala. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: let Your glory fill all the world; be lifted up over all the earth in Your splendor; shine out in the majesty of Your strength over all who dwell on the earth You made -- and let every made thing know that You made it, and every creature understand that You formed it, and all that breathes say: HaShem, God of Yisrael, is One, and that Oneness holds all things. (Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu r'tzeh vimnuchateinu.) Kad'sheinu b'mitzvotecha v'ten chelkeinu b'toratecha, sab'einu mituvecha v'samcheinu bishu'atecha, (v'hanchileinu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava uvratzon Shabbat kodshecha, v'yanuchu vo Yisra'el m'kad'shei sh'mecha,) v'taher libeinu l'ovd'cha be'emet, ki ata Elohim emet, ud'varcha emet v'kayam la'ad. >> The lines in parentheses are added when Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat. Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: (Our God and God of our ancestors, take pleasure in our rest.) Make us holy through Your mitzvot and give us our portion in Your Torah; fill us with Your goodness and gladden us with Your saving help; (in love and favor, grant us Your holy Shabbat as our inheritance, and let Yisrael, who make Your Name holy, rest on it;) and make our hearts pure to serve You in truth -- for You are the God of truth, and Your word is truth, enduring forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One over all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. page 85 Avodah R'tzeh Adonai Eloheinu b'am'cha Yisra'el. Utfilatam b'ahava t'kabel b'ratzon, ut'hi l'ratzon tamid avodat Yisra'el amecha. El karov l'chol kor'av, p'neh el avadecha v'chaneinu. Sh'foch ruchacha aleinu, V'techezena eineinu b'shuvcha l'Tziyon b'rachamim. Baruch ata Adonai, hamachazir sh'chinato l'Tziyon. English: Take pleasure, Eternal our God, in Your people Yisrael and in their prayer; in love receive that prayer with favor, and may the service of Your people Yisrael always be, in truth, for the good. God near to all who call, turn to those who serve You, and be gracious to us. Pour out Your spirit upon us. May our eyes behold Your loving return to Zion. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who returns Your presence to Zion. page 86 Modim Modim anachnu lach, sha'ata hu Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu l'olam va'ed. Tzur chayeinu, magen yish'einu ata hu l'dor vador. Nodeh l'cha unsaper t'hilatecha, al chayeinu ham'surim b'yadecha, v'al nishmoteinu hap'kudot lach, v'al nisecha sheb'chol yom imanu, v'al nifl'otecha v'tovotecha sheb'chol et, erev vavoker v'tzohorayim. Hatov ki lo chalu rachamecha, v'hamrachem ki lo tamu chasadecha, me'olam kivinu lach. V'al kulam yitbarach v'yitromam shimcha malkeinu tamid l'olam va'ed. Uch'tov l'chayim tovim kol b'nei v'ritecha. V'chol hachayim yoducha sela, vihal'lu et shimcha be'emet, ha'El y'shu'ateinu v'ezrateinu sela. Baruch ata Adonai, hatov shimcha ulcha na'eh l'hodot. English: We thank You, for You are the One, our God and the God of our ancestors, forever. Rock of our life, shield of our rescue -- so You are, in every generation. We give thanks and tell Your praise: for our lives, held in Your hand; for our souls, entrusted to You; for Your miracles that are with us every day; and for Your wonders and Your gifts at every moment -- evening, morning, and noon. You are the Good, whose mercies never end; the Compassionate, whose kindnesses never fail, forever we have placed our hope in You. For all these things may Your Name be blessed and raised up, always and forever. And write down for a good life all the children of Your covenant. Let all that lives give thanks to You, and praise Your Name in truth, God of our rescue and our help. Blessed are You, Eternal One, whose Name is Goodness, and to whom thanks are due. page 87 Sim Shalom Sim shalom tova uvracha, chein vachesed v'rachamim, aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el amecha. Barcheinu avinu kulanu k'echad b'or panecha, ki v'or panecha natata lanu Adonai Eloheinu torat chayim v'ahavat chesed, utz'daka uvracha v'rachamim v'chayim v'shalom. V'tov b'einecha l'varech et am'cha Yisra'el b'chol et uvchol sha'a bishlomecha. Ten Days of Awe B'sefer chayim, b'racha v'shalom, ufarnasa tova, nizacher v'nikatev l'fanecha, anachnu v'chol am'cha beit Yisra'el, l'chayim tovim ulshalom. Baruch ata Adonai, oseh hashalom. English: Grant peace, goodness and blessing, grace and love and mercy, upon us and upon all Yisrael Your people. Bless us, our Source, all of us as one, in the light of Your face -- for by the light of Your face You gave us, Eternal our God, a Torah of life and the love of kindness, tzedakah and blessing and mercy and life and peace. And may it be good in Your eyes to bless Your people Yisrael, in every season and at every hour, with Your peace. May we all be written in the book of life, for blessing, for peace, and for a good living: us, and all Your people, Yisrael, for a good life and for shalom. Blessed are You, Adonai, who calls us to create a world of peace. page 88 Elohai N'tzor Elohai, n'tzor l'shoni mera, usfatai midaber mirma, v'limkal'lai nafshi tidom, v'nafshi ke'afar lakol tihyeh. P'tach libi b'toratecha, uvmitzvotecha tirdof nafshi. V'chol hachosh'vim alai ra'a, m'hera hafer atzatam v'kalkel machashavtam. Aseh l'ma'an sh'mecha, aseh l'ma'an y'minecha, aseh l'ma'an k'dushatecha, aseh l'ma'an toratecha. L'ma'an yechal'tzun y'didecha, hoshi'a y'min'cha va'aneni. Yihyu l'ratzon imrei fi v'hegyon libi l'fanecha, Adonai tzuri v'go'ali. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me, let my soul stay silent; let my soul be humble as the dust before all. Open my heart to Your Torah, that my soul may pursue Your mitzvot. And all who plan evil against me -- quickly undo their designs and unravel their schemes. Act for the sake of Your Name; act for the sake of Your right hand; act for the sake of Your holiness; act for the sake of Your Torah. That those You love may be freed, let Your right hand save -- answer me. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Eternal One, my Rock and my Redeemer. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 89 page 90 continued Avinu Malkeinu Traditionally not on Shabbat Avinu Malkeinu, sh'ma koleinu, chus v'rachem aleinu. English: ... hear our voice; spare us, have mercy on us. Avinu Malkeinu, chatanu l'fanecha. English: ... we have sinned before You. Avinu Malkeinu, ein lanu melech ela ata. English: ... we have no sovereign but You. Avinu Malkeinu, s'lach umchal l'chol avonoteinu. English: ... forgive and pardon all our wrongs. Avinu Malkeinu, aseh l'ma'an harugim al shem kodshecha. English: ... act for the sake of those killed for the holiness of Your Name. Avinu Malkeinu, chamol aleinu v'al olaleinu v'tapeinu. English: ... have mercy on us, and on our infants, and on our children. Avinu Malkeinu, kaleh dever v'cherev v'ra'av me'aleinu. English: ... end plague and sword and hunger among us; Avinu Malkeinu, kaleh kol tzar umastin me'aleinu. English: ... end every foe and adversary. Avinu Malkeinu, kotveinu b'sefer chayim tovim. English: ... write us in the book of a good life; Avinu Malkeinu, chadesh aleinu shana tova. English: ... renew for us a good year; Avinu Malkeinu, harem keren Yisra'el amecha. English: ... raise up the strength of Your people Yisrael. Avinu Malkeinu, chaneinu va'aneinu ki ein banu ma'asim, aseh imanu tzedaka vachesed v'hoshi'einu. English: Avinu Malkeinu, be gracious and answer us, for we have little merit. Treat us with tzedakah and love. Save us. page 91 page 92 continued Kaddish Shalem Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. Titkabel tz'lot'hon uva'ut'hon d'chol beit Yisra'el kodam avuhon di vishmaya, v'imru: Amen. English: Receive the prayers and pleas of all the house of Yisrael before the One in heaven -- and say: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 93 Ein Kamocha Ein kamocha va'elohim Adonai, v'ein k'ma'asecha. Malchut'cha malchut kol olamim, umemshalt'cha b'chol dor vador. Adonai melech, Adonai malach, Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. Adonai oz l'amo yiten, Adonai y'varech et amo vashalom. Av harachamim, heitiva virtzon'cha et Tziyon, tivneh chomot Y'rushalayim. Ki v'cha l'vad batachnu, melech El ram v'nisa adon olamim. English: There is none like You among all powers, Eternal One -- nothing like the things You make. Your reign is a reign over all worlds; Your rule holds through every generation. The Eternal rules; the Eternal has ruled; the Eternal will rule forever and ever. May the Holy One give strength to this people; may the Holy One bless this people with peace. Source of compassion -- in Your goodwill, be good to Zion; rebuild the walls of Yerushalayim. For in You alone we have trusted, exalted, uplifted, God everlasting. page 93 Vay'hi Binso'a Vay'hi binso'a ha'aron vayomer Moshe: Kuma Adonai v'yafutzu oyvecha, v'yanusu m'san'echa mipanecha. Ki miTziyon tetze Tora, udvar Adonai miY'rushalayim. Baruch shenatan Tora l'amo Yisra'el bikdushato. English: When the ark would set out, Moses would say: Rise up, Eternal One -- let Your enemies scatter, let those who hate You flee before You. For Torah goes forth from Zion, and the word of the Eternal from Yerushalayim. Blessed is the One who gave Torah to the people Yisrael, in holiness. page 94 The Thirteen Attributes >> Three times. Adonai, Adonai, El rachum v'chanun, erech apayim v'rav chesed ve'emet, notzer chesed la'alafim, nosei avon vafesha v'chata'a, v'nakeh. English: HaShem, HaShem, the Eternal, compassionate and gracious, patient, abounding in love and truth, keeping love to the thousandth generation, bearing wrongdoing and rebellion and failure, and granting pardon. page 94 Sh'ma Sh'ma Yisra'el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Echad Eloheinu, gadol adoneinu, kadosh v'nora sh'mo. Leader Gad'lu la'Adonai iti, unrom'ma sh'mo yachdav. English: Listen, Yisrael: the Eternal is our God, the Eternal is One. One is our God; great beyond measure; holy and awesome is that Name. Magnify the Eternal with me -- let us lift up that Name together. page 95 L'cha Adonai HaGedulah L'cha Adonai hag'dula v'hag'vura v'hatif'eret v'hanetzach v'hahod, ki chol bashamayim uva'aretz, l'cha Adonai hamamlacha v'hamitnase l'chol l'rosh. Rom'mu Adonai Eloheinu v'hishtachavu lahadom raglav, kadosh hu. Rom'mu Adonai Eloheinu v'hishtachavu l'har kodsho, ki kadosh Adonai Eloheinu. English: Yours, Eternal One, is the greatness, the power, the beauty, the endurance, the majesty -- yes, all that is in the heavens and on the earth. Yours, Eternal One, is the sovereignty, lifted up as head over all. Lift up the Eternal our God, and bow down toward that footstool -- the Holy One. Lift up the Eternal our God, and bow toward that holy mountain -- for the Eternal our God is holy. page 96 Called to the Torah V'atem had'vekim ba'Adonai Eloheichem, chayim kulchem hayom. Leader V'ya'azor v'yagen v'yoshia l'chol hachosim bo, v'nomar: Amen. Hakol havu godel leloheinu utnu chavod laTorah. >> Each is called up by name. [note: Ya'amod (he), ta'amod (she), or na la'amod (any of us) -- then [name] ben / bat / mibeit [parents' names]. The third call follows the Conservative movement's 2022 guidance (CJLS, Orach Chayim 139:3); the third form of ben and bat follows the Nonbinary Hebrew Project.] English: And you, holding fast to the Eternal your God -- all of you are alive today. May God help and shield and rescue all who take shelter in God -- and let us say: Amen. All of you: give greatness to our God, and give honor to the Torah. page 96 Blessing Before the Torah Leader Barchu et Adonai ham'vorach. All Baruch Adonai ham'vorach l'olam va'ed. Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher bachar banu mikol ha'amim v'natan lanu et Torato. Baruch ata Adonai, noten haTora. English: Bless the Eternal, Source of blessing. Blessed is the Eternal, Source of blessing, now and forever. Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who called us from among all the peoples and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, Eternal One, giver of the Torah. page 97 page 98 continued page 99 continued page 100 continued Torah Reading -- Day 1 >> Day 1 -- Genesis 21, chanted from the scroll. [note: Isaac is born and named "laughter"; Sarah has Hagar and Ishmael sent into the wilderness of Beersheba; the water runs out, and God hears the cry of the boy -- ba'asher hu sham, "where he is." God is with the boy, and he grows.] [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 1 God took note of Sarah just as promised, and God did for Sarah what had been announced. 2 Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken. 3 Abraham gave his newborn son, whom Sarah had borne him, the name of Isaac. 4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him. 5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 6 Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh with me." 7 And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham That Sarah would suckle children! Yet I have borne a son in his old age." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 8 The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing. 10 She said to Abraham, "Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac." 11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be continued for you. 13 As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 14 Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 When the water was gone from the skin, she left the child under one of the bushes, 16 and went and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, "Let me not look on as the child dies." And sitting thus afar, she burst into tears. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 17 God heard the cry of the boy, and an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heeded the cry of the boy where he is. 18 Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him." 19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 20 God was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became skilled with a bow. 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything that you do. 23 Therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my kith and kin, but will deal with me and with the land in which you have sojourned as loyally as I have dealt with you." 24 And Abraham said, "I swear it." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 25 Then Abraham reproached Abimelech for the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized. 26 But Abimelech said, "I do not know who did this; you did not tell me, nor have I heard of it until today." 27 Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a pact. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 28 Abraham then set seven ewes of the flock by themselves, 29 and Abimelech said to Abraham, "What mean these seven ewes that you have set apart?" 30 He replied, "You are to accept these seven ewes from me as proof that I dug this well." 31 Hence that place was called Beer-sheba, for there the two of them swore an oath. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 32 When they had concluded the pact at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, departed and returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 [Abraham] planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and invoked there the name of the Eternal, the Everlasting God. 34 And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines a long time. page 101 page 102 continued page 103 continued page 104 continued Torah Reading -- Day 2 >> Day 2 -- Genesis 22, chanted from the scroll. [note: The hardest story of the year, read on purpose.] [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 1 Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test -- saying to him, "Abraham." He answered, "Here I am." 2 "Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you." 3 So early next morning, Abraham saddled his donkey and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar. 5 Then Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go up there; we will worship and we will return to you." 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. 7 Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he answered, "Yes, my son." And he said, "Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?" 8 And Abraham said, "It is God who will see to the sheep for this burnt offering, my son." And the two of them walked on together. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 9 They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 11 Then an angel of God called to him from heaven: "Abraham! Abraham!" And he answered, "Here I am." 12 "Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me." 13 When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. 14 And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, whence the present saying, "On God's mount there is vision." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 15 The angel of God called to Abraham a second time from heaven, 16 and said, "By Myself I swear, God declares: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your favored one, 17 I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. 18 All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command." 19 Abraham then returned to his servants, and they departed together for Beer-sheba; and Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 20 Some time later, Abraham was told, "Milcah too has borne sons to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz the first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram; 22 and Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel" -- [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 23 Bethuel being the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore [sons] -- Tebah, Gaham, and Tahash -- and [a daughter,] Maacah. >> Three readings of the story, as questions, not answers: page 105 Blessing After the Torah Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher natan lanu torat emet, v'chayei olam nata b'tocheinu. Baruch ata Adonai, noten haTora. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who gave us a Torah of truth and planted eternity within us. Blessed are You, Eternal One, giver of the Torah. page 105 page 106 continued Mi Shebeirach Mi shebeirach avoteinu, m'kor habracha l'imoteinu, >> We name, aloud or in our hearts, those in need of healing. English: May the Source of Strength, who blessed the ones before us, help us find the courage to make our lives a blessing, and let us say: Amen. Mi shebeirach imoteinu, m'kor habracha la'avoteinu. English: Bless those in need of healing with r'fuah sh'leimah -- the renewal of body, the renewal of spirit -- and let us say: Amen. The traditional Mi Shebeirach Mi shebeirach avoteinu Avraham, Yitzchak v'Ya'akov, v'imoteinu Sara, Rivka, Rachel, Le'a, Bilha v'Zilpa, hu y'varech virape et hacholim/hacholot [... ]. HaKadosh Baruch Hu yimalei rachamim aleihem, l'hachalimam ul'rap'otam ul'hachazikam, v'yishlach lahem m'heira r'fuah sh'leima, r'fuat hanefesh ur'fuat haguf, hashta ba'agala uvizman kariv. V'nomar: Amen. English: May the One who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and our mothers Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah, bless and heal those who are ill [... ]. May the Holy One of blessing be filled with compassion for them -- to restore them, to heal them, to strengthen them -- and send them, swiftly, a complete healing, healing of the spirit and healing of the body, now, speedily, and soon. And let us say: Amen. page 107 Hagbah V'zot haTora asher sam Moshe lifnei b'nei Yisra'el, al pi Adonai b'yad Moshe. English: And this is the Torah that Moses set before the children of Yisrael, from the mouth of the Eternal, by the hand of Moses. page 107 Haftarah Blessing Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher bachar binvi'im tovim, v'ratza v'divreihem hane'emarim be'emet. Baruch ata Adonai, habocher baTora uvMoshe avdo, uvYisra'el amo, uvin'vi'ei ha'emet v'hatzedek. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who chose good prophets and delighted in their words, spoken in truth. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who chooses the Torah, and Moses, God's servant, and Yisrael, God's people, and the prophets of truth and justice. page 108 page 109 continued page 110 continued page 111 continued page 112 continued Haftarah -- Day 1 >> Day 1 -- I Samuel 1:1-2:10, chanted. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 1 There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah; Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless. 3 This man used to go up from his town every year to worship and to offer sacrifice to God of Hosts at Shiloh. -- Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of God there. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 4 One such day, Elkanah offered a sacrifice. He used to give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters; 5 but to Hannah he would give one portion only -- though Hannah was his favorite -- for God had closed her womb. 6 Moreover, her rival, to make her miserable, would taunt her that God had closed her womb. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 7 This happened year after year: Every time she went up to the House of God, the other would taunt her, so that she wept and would not eat. 8 Her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why are you crying and why aren't you eating? Why are you so sad? Am I not more devoted to you than ten sons?" [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose. -- The priest Eli was sitting on the seat near the doorpost of the temple of God. -- 10 In her wretchedness, she prayed to God, weeping all the while. 11 And she made this vow: "O God of Hosts, if You will look upon the suffering of Your maidservant and will remember me and not forget Your maidservant, and if You will grant Your maidservant a child like the others have, I will dedicate it to God for all the days of its life; and no razor shall ever touch its head." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 12 As she kept on praying before God, Eli watched her mouth. 13 Now Hannah was praying in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. 14 Eli said to her, "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Sober up!" 15 And Hannah replied, "Oh no, my lord! I am a very unhappy woman. I have drunk no wine or other strong drink, but I have been pouring out my heart to God. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 16 Do not take your maidservant for a worthless woman; I have only been speaking all this time out of my great anguish and distress." 17 "Then go in peace," said Eli, "and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked." 18 She answered, "You are most kind to your handmaid." So the woman left, and she ate, and was no longer downcast. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 19 Early next morning they bowed low before God, and they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah and God remembered her. 20 Hannah conceived, and at the turn of the year bore a son. She named him Samuel, meaning, "I asked God for him." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 21 And when this man Elkanah and all his household were going up to offer to God the annual sacrifice and his votive sacrifice, 22 Hannah did not go up. She said to her husband, "When the child is weaned, I will bring him. For when he has appeared before God, he must remain there for good." 23 Her husband Elkanah said to her, "Do as you think best. Stay home until you have weaned him. May God's word be fulfilled." So the woman stayed home and nursed her son until she weaned him. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a jar of wine. And though the boy was still very young, she brought him to the House of God at Shiloh. 25 After slaughtering the bull, they brought the boy to Eli. 26 She said, "Please, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you and prayed to God. 27 It was this boy I prayed for; and God has granted me what I asked. 28 I, in turn, hereby lend him to God. For as long as he lives he is lent to God." And they bowed low there before God. >> And Hannah prayed -- her song (I Samuel 2): [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 1 And Hannah prayed: My heart exults in God; I have triumphed through God. I gloat over my enemies; I rejoice in Your deliverance. 2 There is no holy one like God, Truly, there is none beside You; There is no rock like our God. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 3 Talk no more with lofty pride, Let no arrogance cross your lips! For the Eternal is an all-knowing God, By whom actions are measured. 4 The bows of the mighty are broken, And the faltering are girded with strength. 5 The sated are hired out for bread; The starving hunger no more. While the infertile woman bears seven, The mother of many is forlorn. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 6 God deals death and gives life, Casts down into Sheol and raises up. 7 God makes poor and makes rich, Casts down, and also lifts high -- 8 Raising the poor from the dust, Lifting up the needy from the dunghill, To set them with nobles, Granting them seats of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to God, Who has set the world upon them. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 9 [God] guards the steps of the faithful, But the wicked perish in darkness -- For none shall prevail by strength. 10 God's foes shall be shattered -- Thundered against from the heavens. God will judge the ends of the earth -- Giving power to the king, And triumph to the anointed one. page 113 page 114 continued page 115 continued Haftarah -- Day 2 >> Day 2 -- Jeremiah 31:2-20, chanted. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 2 Thus said God: The people escaped from the sword, Found favor in the wilderness; When Israel was marching homeward [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 3 God was revealed long ago. Eternal love I conceived for you then; Therefore I continue My grace to you. 4 I will build you firmly again, O Maiden Israel! Again you shall take up your hand-drums And go forth to the rhythm of the dancers. 5 Again you shall plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; You shall plant and live to enjoy the fruit. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 6 For the day is coming when watchmen Shall proclaim on the heights of Ephraim: Come, let us go up to Zion, To the Eternal our God! [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 7 For thus said God: Cry out in joy for Jacob, Shout at the crossroads of the nations! Sing aloud in praise, and say: Save, O Eternal One, Your people, The remnant of Israel. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 8 I will bring them in from the northland, Gather them from the ends of the earth -- The blind and the lame among them, Those with child and those in labor -- In a vast throng they shall return here. 9 They shall come with weeping, And with compassion will I guide them. I will lead them to streams of water, By a level road where they will not stumble. For I am ever a Father to Israel, Ephraim is My first-born. 10 Hear the word of God, O nations, And tell it in the isles afar. Say: The One who scattered Israel will gather them, And will guard them as a shepherd his flock. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 11 For God will ransom Jacob, Redeem him from one too strong for him. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 12 They shall come and shout on the heights of Zion, Radiant over God's bounty -- Over new grain and wine and oil, And over sheep and cattle. They shall fare like a watered garden, They shall never languish again. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 13 Then shall maidens dance gaily, Young men and old alike. I will turn their mourning to joy, I will comfort them and cheer them in their grief. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 14 I will give the priests their fill of fatness, And My people shall enjoy My full bounty -- declares God. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 15 Thus said God: A cry is heard in Ramah -- Wailing, bitter weeping -- Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted For her children, who are gone. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 16 Thus said God: Restrain your voice from weeping, Your eyes from shedding tears; For there is a reward for your labor -- declares God: They shall return from the enemy's land. 17 And there is hope for your future -- declares God: Your children shall return to their country. 18 I can hear Ephraim lamenting: "You have chastised me, and I am chastised Like a calf that has not been broken. Receive me back, let me return, For You, O Eternal One, are my God. [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 19 Now that I have turned back, I am filled with remorse; Now that I am made aware, I strike my thigh. I am ashamed and humiliated, For I bear the disgrace of my youth." [Hebrew here is chanted; the printed book gives no transliteration for it. The English follows.] English: 20 Truly, Ephraim is a dear son to Me, A child that is dandled! Whenever I have turned against him, My thoughts would dwell on him still. That is why My heart yearns for him; I will receive him back in love -- declares God. page 116 page 117 continued Blessings After the Haftarah Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, tzur kol ha'olamim, tzadik b'chol hadorot, ha'El hane'eman ha'omer v'oseh, hamdaber umkayem, shekol d'varav emet vatzedek. Ne'eman ata hu Adonai Eloheinu v'ne'emanim d'varecha, v'davar echad mid'varecha achor lo yashuv reikam, ki El melech ne'eman v'rachaman ata. Baruch ata Adonai, ha'El hane'eman b'chol d'varav. Rachem al Tziyon ki hi beit chayeinu, v'la'aluvat nefesh toshia bimheira v'yameinu. Baruch ata Adonai, m'sameach Tziyon b'vaneha. Sam'cheinu Adonai Eloheinu b'Eliyahu hanavi avdecha, uvmalchut beit David m'shichecha, bimheira yavo v'yagel libeinu. Al kis'o lo yeishev zar, v'lo yinchalu od acherim et k'vodo, ki v'shem kodsh'cha nishbata lo shelo yichbeh nero l'olam va'ed. Baruch ata Adonai, magen David. Al haTora v'al ha'avoda v'al han'vi'im (v'al yom haShabbat hazeh) v'al yom haZikaron hazeh, shenatata lanu Adonai Eloheinu (likdusha v'limnucha) l'chavod ultif'aret. Al hakol Adonai Eloheinu anachnu modim lach umvar'chim otach, yitbarach shimcha b'fi kol chai tamid l'olam va'ed, ud'varcha emet v'kayam la'ad. Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe -- Rock of all worlds, just in every generation, the faithful God who says and does, who speaks and fulfills, whose every word is truth and justice. You are faithful, Eternal our God, and Your words are faithful; not one of Your words comes back empty -- for You are God, faithful and merciful. Blessed are You, Eternal One, the God faithful in every word. Have compassion on Zion, for it is the home of our life; rescue the crushed spirit, soon, in our own days. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who gladdens Zion in her children. Gladden us, Eternal our God, with Elijah the prophet, Your servant, and with the reign of the house of David, Your anointed; may it come soon and bring joy to our hearts. Let no stranger sit upon his throne, let no others inherit his glory -- for by Your holy Name You swore his lamp would never go dark. Blessed are You, Eternal One, shield of David. For the Torah, and the offering, and the prophets, (and for this day of Shabbat,) and for this Day of Remembrance that You gave us, Eternal our God, (for holiness and for rest,) for honor and for beauty -- for all of it, HaShem our God, we thank You and bless You. May Your Name be blessed in the mouth of all that lives, always, forever; and Your word is truth, enduring forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One over all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. page 118 Y'halelu Leader Y'hal'lu et shem Adonai, ki nisgav sh'mo l'vado. All Hodo al eretz v'shamayim, vayarem keren l'amo, t'hila l'chol chasidav, livnei Yisra'el am k'rovo, hal'luyah. English: Let them praise the name of the Eternal -- for that name alone is exalted. Its splendor is over earth and sky. God raised up a horn for this people -- a song of praise for all the faithful, for the children of Yisrael, the people close to God. Halleluyah. page 118 Uv'nucho Yomar Uvnucho yomar: Shuva Adonai riv'vot alfei Yisra'el. Kuma Adonai limnuchatecha, ata va'aron uzecha. Kohanecha yilb'shu tzedek, vachasidecha y'raneinu. Ba'avur David avdecha al tashev p'nei m'shichecha. English: As it came to rest, Moses would say: Return, Eternal One, to the countless thousands of Yisrael. Rise, Eternal One, to Your resting place -- You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests be clothed in righteousness, and Your faithful sing for joy. For the sake of David Your servant, do not turn away the face of Your anointed. page 119 Eitz Chayim Ki lekach tov natati lachem, Torati al ta'azovu. Etz chayim hi lamachazikim bah, v'tom'cheha m'ushar. D'racheha darchei noam, v'chol n'tivoteha shalom. Hashiveinu Adonai eilecha v'nashuva, chadesh yameinu k'kedem. English: For I have given you a good teaching -- do not abandon My Torah. It is a tree of life to those who hold fast to it, and all who uphold it are happy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Turn us back to You, Eternal One, and we will return -- make our days new, as of old. page 120 Psalm 47 >> This psalm is sung before the shofar is sounded. Lamnatzeach livnei Korach mizmor. Kol ha'amim tik'u chaf, hari'u leiElohim b'kol rina. Ki Adonai elyon nora, melech gadol al kol ha'aretz. Yadber amim tachteinu, ul'umim tachat ragleinu. Yivchar lanu et nachalateinu, et g'on Ya'akov asher ahev sela. Ala Elohim bitru'a, Adonai b'kol shofar. Zamru Elohim zameiru, zamru l'malkeinu zameiru. Ki melech kol ha'aretz Elohim, zamru maskil. Malach Elohim al goyim, Elohim yashav al kisei kodsho. N'divei amim ne'esafu am Elohei Avraham, ki leiElohim maginei eretz, m'od na'ala. English: For the leader -- a psalm of the Korahites. All you peoples, clap your hands; raise a shout to God with a voice of song. For the Eternal Most High is awesome, great Sovereign over all the earth -- who subdues peoples beneath us, nations beneath our feet; who chose our portion for us, the pride of Jacob, beloved. Selah. God has risen amid the blast; the Eternal, at the sound of the shofar. Sing to God, sing; sing to our Sovereign, sing. For God is Sovereign of all the earth -- sing a song of insight. God reigns over the nations; God is seated on a holy throne. The generous of the peoples are gathered, the people of the God of Abraham -- for the shields of the earth belong to God, who is very highly exalted. page 121 page 122 continued page 123 continued Malchuyot Aleinu l'shabeach la'adon hakol, latet g'dula l'yotzer b'reshit, shelo asanu k'goyei ha'aratzot, v'lo samanu k'mishp'chot ha'adama; shelo sam chelkeinu kahem, v'goraleinu k'chol hamonam. Va'anachnu kor'im umishtachavim umodim, lifnei melech malchei ham'lachim, haKadosh baruch hu. As it is written in the Torah Shehu noteh shamayim v'yosed aretz, umoshav y'karo bashamayim mima'al, ushchinat uzo b'govhei m'romim. Hu Eloheinu ein od, emet malkeinu efes zulato, kakatuv b'torato: v'yadata hayom vahashevota el l'vavecha, ki Adonai hu ha'Elohim bashamayim mima'al v'al ha'aretz mitachat, ein od. English: It is upon us to acknowledge the Oneness of Creation, and to celebrate the majesty of it all -- we who were not made like the nations of the lands, nor set like the families of the earth; whose portion is not theirs, whose lot is our own. And so we bend, and bow, and give thanks before what is beyond every power, the Holy One of blessing. The heavens stretched wide, the earth set on its foundations, glory and strength filling the highest heights -- this is our God; there is no other. As it is written in the Torah: Know this day and take it to heart, that the Eternal is God in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other. the blessing of the day Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, greater than all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. the blessing over the shofar Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu lishmo'a kol shofar. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who calls us toward holiness as we hear the voice of the shofar. Shehecheyanu Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, shehecheyanu v'kiy'manu v'higi'anu lazman hazeh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this moment. page 124 Hayom Harat Olam -- Malchuyot Hayom harat olam, hayom ya'amid bamishpat kol y'tzurei olamim. Im k'vanim, im ka'avadim. Im k'vanim, rachameinu k'rachem av al banim. V'im ka'avadim, eineinu l'cha t'luyot, ad shet'chaneinu v'totzi cha'or mishpateinu, ayom kadosh. English: Today, the world is born. Today, all its creatures stand in judgment. If as children: have mercy on us, as a parent has mercy on their children. If as servants: our eyes are turned to You, waiting -- until You are gracious, and bring our judgment forth, clear as light -- awesome and holy One. Areshet s'fateinu ye'erav l'fanecha, El ram v'nisa, mevin uma'azin, mabit umakshiv l'kol t'ki'ateinu, ut'kabel b'rachamim uvratzon seder malchuyoteinu. English: Let the word of our lips be sweet before You -- high and lifted-up God, who understands and listens, watches and hears the sound of our shofar -- and receive, in mercy and favor, our order of sovereignty-verses. page 125 page 126 continued page 127 continued Zichronot Ata zocher ma'aseh olam, ufoked kol y'tzurei kedem. L'fanecha niglu kol ta'alumot vahamon nistarot shemibb'reshit. Ki ein shich'cha lifnei chise ch'vodecha, v'ein nistar mineged einecha. Ata zocher et kol hamif'al, v'gam kol hay'tzur lo nichchad mimeka. Hakol galui v'yadua l'fanecha, Adonai Eloheinu, tzofeh umabit ad sof kol hadorot. Ki tavi chok zikaron l'hipaked kol ruach vanafesh, l'hizacher ma'asim rabim vahamon b'riyot l'ein tachlit. Mereshit kazot hoda'ta, umil'fanim otah gilita. English: You remember the making of the world and call to account all that was formed of old. Before You every hidden thing is revealed, the multitude of secrets since the beginning -- for there is no forgetting before Your throne of glory, and nothing is hidden from Your sight. You remember every deed, and no creature is concealed from You; all is revealed and known before You, Eternal our God, who watches and beholds to the very end of all generations. For You set a statute of remembrance, when every spirit and soul is called to account, when countless deeds and creatures beyond number are recalled. From the beginning You made this known, and long ago You revealed it. Zeh hayom t'chilat ma'asecha, zikaron l'yom rishon, ki chok l'Yisra'el hu, mishpat lelohei Ya'akov. V'al ham'dinot bo ye'amer: ei zo lacherev v'ei zo lashalom, ei zo lara'av v'ei zo lasova. Uvriyot bo yipakedu l'hazkiram lachayim v'lamavet. Mi lo nifkad k'hayom hazeh, ki zecher kol hay'tzur l'fanecha ba: ma'aseh ish ufkudato, va'alilot mitz'adei gaver, machsh'vot adam v'tachbulotav v'yitzrei ma'al'lei ish. Ashrei ish shelo yishkachecha, uven adam yit'ametz bach, ki dor'shecha l'olam lo yikashelu, v'lo yikal'mu lanetzach kol hachosim bach. Ki zecher kol hama'asim l'fanecha ba, v'ata doresh ma'aseh chulam. English: This is the day that begins Your work, a remembrance of the first day -- a statute for Yisrael, a judgment of the God of Jacob. Concerning the nations, on this day it is told which is destined for the sword and which for peace, which for famine and which for plenty; and creatures are called to account upon it, remembered for life or for death. Who is not called to account as on this day? -- for the memory of all that is formed comes before You: each person's deed and destiny, the acts and footsteps of every mortal, the thoughts of a human being, all their schemes, and the impulses behind their deeds. Happy the one who does not forget You, the child of earth who takes strength in You; for those who seek You will never stumble, and those who take refuge in You will never be shamed. For the memory of every deed comes before You, and You inquire into the doing of them all. Baruch ata Adonai, zocher habrit. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, who remembers the covenant. page 128 Hayom Harat Olam -- Zichronot Hayom harat olam, hayom ya'amid bamishpat kol y'tzurei olamim. Im k'vanim, im ka'avadim. Im k'vanim, rachameinu k'rachem av al banim. V'im ka'avadim, eineinu l'cha t'luyot, ad shet'chaneinu v'totzi cha'or mishpateinu, ayom kadosh. English: Today, the world is born. Today, all its creatures stand in judgment. If as children: have mercy on us, as a parent has mercy on their children. If as servants: our eyes are turned to You, waiting -- until You are gracious, and bring our judgment forth, clear as light -- awesome and holy One. Areshet s'fateinu ye'erav l'fanecha, El ram v'nisa, mevin uma'azin, mabit umakshiv l'kol t'ki'ateinu, ut'kabel b'rachamim uvratzon seder zichronoteinu. English: Let the word of our lips be sweet before You -- high and lifted-up God, who understands and listens, watches and hears the sound of our shofar -- and receive, in mercy and favor, our order of remembrance-verses. page 129 page 130 continued page 131 continued Shofarot Ata nigleita ba'anan k'vodecha al am kodsh'cha l'daber imam. Min hashamayim hishmatam kolecha, v'nigleita aleihem b'arflei tohar. Gam (kol) ha'olam kulo chal mipanecha, uvriyot b'reshit char'du mimeka b'higalot'cha malkeinu al har Sinai l'lamed l'am'cha Torah umitzvot. Vatashmi'em et hod kolecha v'dibrot kodsh'cha milahavot esh. B'kolot uvrakim aleihem nigleita, uvkol shofar aleihem hofa'ta. Kakatuv b'toratecha: Vay'hi vayom hash'lishi bihyot haboker, vay'hi kolot uvrakim v'anan kaved al hahar, v'kol shofar chazak m'od, vayecherad kol ha'am asher bamachaneh. English: You revealed Yourself in the cloud of Your glory to Your holy people, to speak with them. From the heavens You made them hear Your voice, and revealed Yourself to them in clouds of purity. The whole world, too, trembled before You, and the creatures of the beginning shook in awe of You, when You were revealed to us on Mount Sinai -- to teach Your people Torah and mitzvot. You made them hear the majesty of Your voice, Your holy words out of flames of fire. In thunder and lightning You were revealed to them, and in the sound of the shofar You shone forth upon them. As it is written in Your Torah: 'And on the third day, as morning broke, there was thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and a very strong shofar-sound, and all the people in the camp trembled.' V'ne'emar: Vay'hi kol hashofar holech v'chazek m'od, Moshe y'daber v'ha'Elohim ya'anenu v'kol. English: And it is said: 'And the sound of the shofar grew steadily stronger; Moses spoke, and God answered him in a voice.' V'ne'emar: V'chol ha'am ro'im et hakolot v'et halapidim v'et kol hashofar v'et hahar ashen, vayar ha'am vayanu'u vaya'amdu merachok. English: And it is said: 'And all the people saw the thunder and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the mountain smoking; the people saw, and they trembled and stood at a distance.' Baruch ata Adonai, shomea kol teruat amo Yisra'el b'rachamim. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, who hears the sound of the shofar-cry of Your people Yisrael, in mercy. page 132 Hayom Harat Olam -- Shofarot Hayom harat olam, hayom ya'amid bamishpat kol y'tzurei olamim. Im k'vanim, im ka'avadim. Im k'vanim, rachameinu k'rachem av al banim. V'im ka'avadim, eineinu l'cha t'luyot, ad shet'chaneinu v'totzi cha'or mishpateinu, ayom kadosh. English: Today, the world is born. Today, all its creatures stand in judgment. If as children: have mercy on us, as a parent has mercy on their children. If as servants: our eyes are turned to You, waiting -- until You are gracious, and bring our judgment forth, clear as light -- awesome and holy One. Areshet s'fateinu ye'erav l'fanecha, El ram v'nisa, mevin uma'azin, mabit umakshiv l'kol t'ki'ateinu, ut'kabel b'rachamim uvratzon seder shofroteinu. English: Let the word of our lips be sweet before You -- high and lifted-up God, who understands and listens, watches and hears the sound of our shofar -- and receive, in mercy and favor, our order of shofar-verses. page 133 Hayom T'am'tzeinu Hayom t'am'tzeinu. English: Today, make us strong. Hayom t'varcheinu. English: Today, bless us. Hayom t'gad'leinu. English: Today, help us grow. Hayom tidr'sheinu l'tova. English: Today, seek us out for good. Hayom t'chadesh aleinu shana tova. English: Today, renew for us a good year. Hayom tishma shav'ateinu. English: Today, hear our cry. Hayom t'kabel b'rachamim uvratzon et t'filateinu. English: Today, receive our prayer with compassion and with favor. Hayom titm'cheinu bimin tzidkecha. English: Today, hold us up with Your right hand of justice. Amen. English: Amen. page 134 Ein Keloheinu Ein keloheinu, ein kadoneinu, ein k'malkeinu, ein k'moshi'einu. Mi cheloheinu, mi chadoneinu, mi ch'malkeinu, mi ch'moshi'einu. English: There is none like our God, none like our Source, none like our Shelter, none like the One who saves us. Who is like our God, like our Source, like our Shelter, like the One who saves us? Nodeh leloheinu, nodeh ladoneinu, nodeh l'malkeinu, nodeh l'moshi'einu. Baruch Eloheinu, baruch Adoneinu, baruch Malkeinu, baruch Moshi'einu. English: We give thanks to our God, to our Source, to our Shelter, to the One who saves us. Blessed is our God, our Source, our Shelter, the One who saves us. Ata hu Eloheinu, ata hu Adoneinu, ata hu Malkeinu, ata hu Moshi'einu. English: You are our God, our Source, our Shelter, the One who saves us. Ata hu shehiktiru avoteinu l'fanecha et k'toret hasamim. English: You are the One before whom our ancestors burned the incense of spices. page 135 page 136 continued Aleinu >> Some bow at the word kor'im. Aleinu l'shabeach la'adon hakol, latet g'dula l'yotzer b'reshit, shelo asanu k'goyei ha'aratzot, v'lo samanu k'mishp'chot ha'adama; shelo sam chelkeinu kahem, v'goraleinu k'chol hamonam. Va'anachnu kor'im umishtachavim umodim, lifnei melech malchei ham'lachim, haKadosh baruch hu. English: It is upon us to acknowledge the Oneness of Creation, and to celebrate the majesty of it all -- we who were not made like the nations of the lands, nor set like the families of the earth; whose portion is not theirs, whose lot is our own. And so we bend, and bow, and give thanks before what is beyond every power, the Holy One of blessing. As it is written in the Torah Shehu noteh shamayim v'yosed aretz, umoshav y'karo bashamayim mima'al, ushchinat uzo b'govhei m'romim. Hu Eloheinu ein od, emet malkeinu efes zulato, kakatuv b'torato: v'yadata hayom vahashevota el l'vavecha, ki Adonai hu ha'Elohim bashamayim mima'al v'al ha'aretz mitachat, ein od. English: The heavens stretched wide, the earth set on its foundations, glory and strength filling the highest heights -- this is our God; there is no other. As it is written in the Torah: Know this day and take it to heart, that the Eternal is God in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other. Al ken n'kaveh l'cha Adonai Eloheinu, lir'ot m'hera b'tif'eret uzecha, l'ha'avir gilulim min ha'aretz, v'ha'elilim karot yikaretun, l'taken olam b'malchut Shaddai. V'chol b'nei vasar yikr'u vishmecha, l'hafnot eilecha kol rish'ei aretz. Yakiru v'yed'u kol yosh'vei tevel, ki l'cha tichra kol berech, tishava kol lashon. L'fanecha Adonai Eloheinu yichr'u v'yipolu, v'lichvod shimcha y'kar yitenu, vikab'lu chulam et ol malchutecha, v'timloch aleihem m'hera l'olam va'ed. Ki hamalchut shel'cha hi, ul'olmei ad timloch b'chavod, kakatuv b'toratecha: Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. V'ne'emar: v'haya Adonai l'melech al kol ha'aretz, bayom hahu yihyeh Adonai echad ushmo echad. English: And so we hope in You, the Eternal our God: soon to see the splendor of Your strength, when every idol and false god is swept from the earth, and the world is mended whole in the oneness of the Almighty. All who live will call on Your Name, and earth's wrongdoers will turn back to You. Let the world come to know that every knee bends and every tongue swears true before You. Before You, Eternal our God, may all bow low, honor Your Name, and take on together the obligation of Oneness, soon and always. All is Yours, and forever You endure in glory, as it is written in Your Torah: The Eternal will reign forever and ever. And it is said: the Eternal shall be sovereign over all the earth; on that day the Eternal shall be One, and the Name One. page 137 page 138 continued Mourner's Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. English: May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. English: May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 139 Shehecheyanu On the second day -- over the fruit Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei p'ri ha'etz. the blessing Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, shehecheyanu v'kiy'manu v'higi'anu lazman hazeh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the tree. Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this moment. page 140 Birkat Kohanim Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, bar'cheinu bab'racha ham'shuleshet baTorah, hak'tuva al y'dei Moshe avdecha, ha'amura mipi Aharon uvanav kohanim am k'doshecha, ka'amur: English: Our God and God of our ancestors -- bless us with the threefold blessing of the Torah, written by the hand of Moses Your servant, spoken by Aaron and his sons, the priests, Your holy people, as it is said: Y'varech'cha Adonai v'yishm'recha. Ya'er Adonai panav eilecha vichuneka. Yisa Adonai panav eilecha v'yasem l'cha shalom. English: May the Eternal bless you and keep you. May the Holy One's face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May HaShem's face turn toward you and grant you peace. page 141 Adon Olam >> Psalm 27 is said here -- p. . Adon olam asher malach, b'terem kol y'tzir nivra. L'et na'asa v'cheftzo kol, azai melech sh'mo nikra. V'acharei kichlot hakol, l'vado yimloch nora. V'hu haya v'hu hoveh, v'hu yihyeh b'tif'ara. V'hu echad v'ein sheni, l'hamshil lo l'hachbira. B'li reshit b'li tachlit, v'lo ha'oz v'hamisra. V'hu Eli v'chai go'ali, v'tzur chevli b'et tzara. V'hu nisi umanos li, m'nat kosi b'yom ekra. B'yado afkid ruchi, b'et ishan v'a'ira. V'im ruchi g'viyati, Adonai li v'lo ira. English: Eternal One of all, who was before any form was created; when all was made by Your will, then was Your name made known. And after all has ceased to be, You alone endure, beyond all awe. You were, You are, You will be in glory. You are One; there is no second to compare or set beside You. Without beginning, without end -- Yours is the strength, and Yours all that is. You are my God, my living Redeemer, my Rock in time of trouble; my banner, my refuge, the portion of my cup on the day I call. Into Your hand I entrust my spirit, when I sleep and when I wake; and with my spirit, my body too -- the Eternal is with me, I will not fear. page 142 page 143 continued page 144 continued Yigdal 1 Yigdal Elohim chai v'yishtabach, nimtza v'ein et el m'tzi'uto. 2 Echad v'ein yachid k'yichudo, ne'elam v'gam ein sof l'achduto. English: Great is the living God, and praised: existing, beyond any moment we could bound. One, and there is no oneness like that oneness -- hidden, and endless in Your unity. 3 Ein lo d'mut haguf v'eino guf, lo na'aroch elav k'dushato. 4 Kadmon l'chol davar asher nivra, rishon v'ein reishit l'reishito. English: You have no bodily form and are not a body; nothing can measure Your holiness. Before all that was created, first -- with no beginning to Your beginning. 5 Hino adon olam l'chol notzar, yoreh g'dulato umalchuto. 6 Shefa n'vu'ato n'tano, el anshei s'gulato v'tif'arto. English: Behold, the Eternal of the world, to every creature teaching Your greatness and Your endless reach. You poured out the gift of prophecy upon the people of Your treasure and Your splendor. 7 Lo kam b'Yisra'el k'Moshe od, navi umabit et t'munato. 8 Torat emet natan l'amo El, al yad n'vio ne'eman beito. English: None arose in Yisrael like Moses again -- a prophet who beheld Your very likeness. A Torah of truth You gave Your people, through Your prophet, the trusted one of Your house. 9 Lo yachalif ha'El v'lo yamir dato, l'olamim l'zulato. 10 Tzofeh v'yodea s'tareinu, mabit l'sof davar b'kadmuto. English: God will not exchange nor alter that teaching -- never, for any other. You watch and know our secrets, seeing the end of a thing in its beginning. 11 Gomel l'ish chesed k'mif'alo, noten l'rasha ra k'rish'ato. English: You reward the good according to their deeds, and repay the wicked their evil according to their wickedness. 12 Yishlach l'ketz hayamin m'shicheinu, lifdot m'chakei ketz y'shu'ato. English: At the end of days You will send our messiah, to redeem those who wait for the end of Your deliverance. Meitim y'chayeh El b'rov chasdo, baruch adei ad shem t'hilato. English: God will revive the dead, in the fullness of divine love -- blessed forever is the Name of that praise. page 145 page 146 continued page 147 continued Ashrei Ashrei yoshvei veitecha, od y'hal'lucha sela. Ashrei ha'am shekacha lo, ashrei ha'am she'Adonai Elohav. English: Happy are those who dwell in Your house; they never stop praising You. Selah. Happy the people for whom it is so; happy the people whose God is the One. T'hila l'David. Aromimcha Elohai hamelech, va'avarcha shimcha l'olam va'ed. B'chol yom avarcheka, va'ahalela shimcha l'olam va'ed. Gadol Adonai umhulal m'od, v'ligdulato ein cheker. Dor l'dor y'shabach ma'asecha, ugvurotecha yagidu. Hadar k'vod hodecha, v'divrei niflotecha asicha. Ve'ezuz nor'otecha yomeru, ugdulatcha asaprena. English: A song of praise, of David. I will lift You high, my God, my Sovereign, and bless Your Name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and praise Your Name forever and ever. Great is the One, and greatly to be praised; that greatness is beyond all searching out. One generation praises Your works to the next, and tells of Your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and Your wondrous deeds, I will meditate. They will speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will recount Your greatness. Zecher rav tuvcha yabi'u, v'tzidkatcha y'ranenu. Chanun v'rachum Adonai, erech apayim ugdol-chased. Tov Adonai lakol, v'rachamav al kol ma'asav. Yoducha Adonai kol ma'asecha, vachasidecha y'varchucha. K'vod malchutcha yomeru, ugvuratcha y'daberu. English: They will pour out the memory of Your abundant goodness, and sing of Your justice. Gracious and compassionate is the One, slow to anger and great in love. The One is good to all, and that mercy rests upon all creation. All Your works will thank You, and the faithful will bless You. They will tell the glory of Your reign, and speak of Your power -- L'hodia livnei ha'adam g'vurotav, uchvod hadar malchuto. Malchutcha malchut kol olamim, umemshaltcha b'chol dor vador. Somech Adonai l'chol hanoflim, v'zokef l'chol hak'fufim. Einei chol eilecha y'saberu, v'ata noten lahem et ochlam b'ito. Poteach et yadecha, umasbia l'chol chai ratzon. Tzadik Adonai b'chol d'rachav, v'chasid b'chol ma'asav. English: to make known to all people those mighty acts, and the glorious splendor of that reign. Your reign is a reign for all worlds, and Your rule endures through every generation. The One holds up all who fall, and lifts up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to You in hope, and You give them their food in its season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The One is just in all those ways, and faithful in all those deeds. Karov Adonai l'chol kor'av, l'chol asher yikra'uhu ve'emet. R'tzon y're'av ya'ase, v'et shav'atam yishma v'yoshi'em. Shomer Adonai et kol ohavav, v'et kol har'sha'im yashmid. T'hilat Adonai y'daber pi, vivarech kol basar shem kodsho l'olam va'ed. English: The One is near to all who call -- to all who call out in truth. The One fulfills the longing of those who are in awe, hears their cry, and saves them. The One watches over all who love, but all the wicked will be destroyed. My mouth will speak the praise of the One; let all flesh bless that holy name, forever and ever. Va'anachnu n'varech Yah, me'ata v'ad olam, hal'lu-Yah. English: And we will bless Yah, from now and forever. Halleluyah. >> On Shabbat: the week's portion is read before the Amidah, in three aliyot. >> The blessings are on p. and p. . page 148 Chatzi Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. page 149 The Amidah Adonai, s'fatai tiftach, ufi yagid t'hilatecha. English: Adonai, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise. page 149 page 150 continued Avot v'Imahot Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak, ve'lohei Ya'akov; Elohei Sara, Elohei Rivka, Elohei Le'a, ve'lohei Rachel, Elohei Bilha, ve'lohei Zilpa. Ha'El hagadol hagibor v'hanora, El elyon, gomel chasadim tovim, v'koneh hakol, v'zocher chasdei avot v'imahot, umevi go'el livnei v'neihem l'ma'an sh'mo b'ahava. Ten Days of Awe Zochreinu l'chayim, melech chafetz bachayim, v'chotveinu b'sefer hachayim, l'ma'ancha Elohim chayim. Melech ozer umoshi'a umagen. Baruch ata Adonai, magen Avraham v'ezrat Sara. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, God of our ancestors -- God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob; God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Leah, God of Rachel, God of Bilhah, and God of Zilpah. Great, mighty, and awesome God, God Most High, who acts with love, who creates all, who remembers the faithfulness of our ancestors, and who lovingly brings redemption to their children's children for the sake of Your Name. Remember us for life, You who delight in life, and write us in the Book of Life -- for Your own sake, Source of life. You are our help, our rescue, our shield. Blessed are You, Eternal One, shield of Abraham and help of Sarah. page 151 G'vurot Ata gibor l'olam Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/meitim ata, rav l'hoshi'a. Morid hatal. M'chalkel chayim b'chesed, m'chayeh hakol/meitim b'rachamim rabim, somech nof'lim, v'rofe cholim, umatir asurim, umkayem emunato lishenei afar. Mi chamocha ba'al g'vurot, umi domeh lach, melech memit umchayeh umatzmi'ach y'shu'a. English: You are forever mighty; You give life to all / revive the dead, and Your saving power is great. You cause the dew to fall. You sustain the living with love, giving life to all / reviving the dead with great compassion; You hold up the falling, heal the sick, free the captive, and keep faith with those who sleep in the dust. Ten Days of Awe Mi chamocha av harachamim, zocher y'tzurav l'chayim b'rachamim. English: Who is like You, Source of mercy, who in compassion remembers Your creatures for life? V'ne'eman ata l'hachayot hakol/meitim. Baruch ata Adonai, m'chayeh hakol/hameitim. English: Who is like You, Source of all power? Who can compare -- You who bring death and life, and make rescue blossom? You are faithful to give life to all / to revive the dead. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who gives life to all / who revives the dead. page 152 K'dushah Nekadesh et shimcha ba'olam, k'shem shemakdishim oto bishmei marom, kakatuv al yad n'vi'echa: v'kara zeh el zeh v'amar: All Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh Adonai tz'va'ot, m'lo chol ha'aretz k'vodo. Az b'kol ra'ash gadol adir v'chazak mashmi'im kol, mitnas'im l'umat s'rafim, l'umatam baruch yomeru: All Baruch k'vod Adonai mim'komo. Mim'komcha malkeinu tofi'a v'timloch aleinu, ki m'chakim anachnu lach. Matai timloch b'Tziyon? B'karov b'yameinu, l'olam va'ed tishkon. Titgadal v'titkadash b'toch Yerushalayim ircha l'dor vador ulnetzach n'tzachim. V'eineinu tir'ena malchutecha, kadavar ha'amur b'shirei uzecha al y'dei David m'shiach tzidkecha: All Yimloch Adonai l'olam, Elohayich Tziyon l'dor vador, hal'luyah. L'dor vador nagid godlecha, ulnetzach n'tzachim k'dushatcha nakdish, v'shivchacha Eloheinu mipinu lo yamush l'olam va'ed, ki El melech gadol v'kadosh ata. English: We make Your Name holy in the world as they make it holy in the heights of heaven, as Your prophet wrote: and they called out, one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy is the Source of all being; the fullness of the whole earth is that glory. Then, with the sound of a great roar, mighty and strong, they raise their voices, lifting toward the seraphim, and facing them say: Blessed -- Blessed is the glory of the Eternal, from its place. From Your place, appear to us -- for we are waiting for You. When will that day come to Zion? Soon, in our own days -- dwell there forever. Be magnified and made holy within Yerushalayim Your city, from generation to generation, for all time. May our own eyes see the world made whole, as the word is sung in the songs of Your strength, by the hand of David, Your anointed of justice: The Eternal will reign forever -- your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah. From generation to generation we will tell Your greatness, and for all time make holy Your holiness; Your praise, our God, will never leave our mouths, for You are a great and holy God. page 153 page 154 continued page 155 continued Uv'chein Uvchein ten pachd'cha Adonai Eloheinu al kol ma'asecha, v'eimat'cha al kol ma shebarata. V'yira'ucha kol hama'asim v'yishtachavu l'fanecha kol hab'ru'im, v'ye'asu chulam aguda achat la'asot r'tzon'cha b'levav shalem. K'mo sheyadanu Adonai Eloheinu shehashilton l'fanecha, oz b'yad'cha ugvura biminecha, v'shimcha nora al kol ma shebarata. English: And so: set the awe of You, Eternal our God, over all You have made, and the awe of You over all You have created -- that every made thing hold You in awe and all creatures bow before You, and that they all become one company, to do Your will with a whole heart. For we know, Eternal our God, that the governing is Yours -- strength in Your hand and power in Your right hand -- and Your Name is awesome over all You have made. Uvchein ten kavod Adonai l'amecha, t'hila lire'echa v'tikva tova l'dor'shecha ufitchon peh lamyachalim lach. Simcha l'artzecha v'sason l'irecha, utzmichat keren l'David avdecha va'arichat ner l'ven Yishai m'shichecha, bimheira v'yameinu. English: And so: give honor, Eternal One, to Your people, praise to those who hold You in awe and good hope to those who seek You, and an open mouth to those who wait for You -- joy to Your land and gladness to Your city, and the flowering of new strength for the line of David Your servant, soon, in our own days. Uvchein tzadikim yir'u v'yismachu, visharim ya'alozu, vachasidim b'rina yagilu, v'olata tikpotz piha, v'chol harish'a kula k'ashan tichleh, ki ta'avir memshelet zadon min ha'aretz. V'timloch ata Adonai l'vadecha al kol ma'asecha, b'har Tziyon mishkan k'vodecha, uvirushalayim ir kodshecha, kakatuv b'divrei kodshecha: yimloch Adonai l'olam, Elohayich Tziyon l'dor vador, hal'luyah. English: And so: the just will see and be glad, the upright will rejoice, the faithful will delight in song -- and wrongdoing will shut its mouth, and all wickedness will vanish like smoke, when You clear the rule of arrogance from the earth. And You alone, Eternal One, will be the Oneness over all You have made, on Mount Zion, the dwelling of Your glory, and in Yerushalayim, Your holy city -- as it is written: The Eternal will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah. Kadosh ata v'nora sh'mecha, v'ein eloah mibal'adecha. Kakatuv: vayigbah Adonai tz'va'ot bamishpat, v'ha'El hakadosh nikdash bitzdaka. English: You are holy, and Your Name inspires awe, and there is no god but You -- as it is written: "the Source of all being is exalted through justice, and the holy God is hallowed through righteousness." (Isaiah 5:16) Baruch ata Adonai, haMelech haKadosh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal One, the holy Sovereign. page 156 page 157 continued page 158 continued K'dushat HaYom Ata v'chartanu mikol ha'amim, ahavta otanu v'ratzita banu, v'romamtanu mikol hal'shonot, v'kidashtanu b'mitzvotecha, v'keiravtanu malkeinu la'avodatecha, v'shimcha hagadol v'hakadosh aleinu karata. English: You chose us from among all peoples, and loved us, and wanted us; You lifted us up among all tongues and made us holy through Your mitzvot, and drew us near to Your service, and called Your great and holy Name over us. Vatiten lanu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava (et yom haShabbat hazeh v') et yom haZikaron hazeh, yom (zichron) t'ru'a (b'ahava) mikra kodesh, zecher litzi'at Mitzrayim. English: And You gave us, Eternal our God, in love (this Shabbat day and) this Day of Remembrance -- a day of (the remembrance of) the shofar-blast (in love), a holy calling, a remembrance of the going-out from Egypt. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, ya'aleh v'yavo v'yagia v'yera'eh v'yeratzeh v'yishama v'yipaked v'yizacher zichroneinu ufikdoneinu, v'zichron avoteinu v'imoteinu, v'zichron mashiach ben David avdecha, v'zichron Yerushalayim ir kodshecha, v'zichron kol am'cha beit Yisra'el l'fanecha, lifleita l'tova, l'chein ulchesed ulrachamim, l'chayim ulshalom b'yom haZikaron hazeh. Zochreinu Adonai Eloheinu bo l'tova, ufokdeinu vo livracha, v'hoshi'einu vo l'chayim. Uvidvar y'shu'a v'rachamim chus v'chaneinu, v'rachem aleinu v'hoshi'einu. Ki eilecha eineinu, ki El melech chanun v'rachum ata. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: may there rise and come, reach and be seen, be wanted and heard, counted and remembered -- the remembrance of us and of our ancestors, and the remembrance of the anointed one of the house of David Your servant, and the remembrance of Yerushalayim Your holy city, and of all Your people the house of Yisrael -- for deliverance and good, for grace and love and mercy, for life and peace, on this Day of Remembrance. Remember us on it for good; take account of us for blessing; save us for life. And with a word of rescue and mercy, spare us and be gracious to us; have compassion on us and save us. For our eyes are turned to You -- You are God, gracious and merciful. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, m'loch al kol ha'olam kulo bichvodecha, v'hinasei al kol ha'aretz bikarecha, v'hofa bahadar g'on uzecha al kol yoshvei tevel artzecha. V'yeda kol pa'ul ki ata f'alto, v'yavin kol y'tzur ki ata y'tzarto, v'yomar kol asher n'shama v'apo: Adonai Elohei Yisra'el melech, umalchuto bakol mashala. English: Our God and God of our ancestors: let Your glory fill all the world; be lifted up over all the earth in Your splendor; shine out in the majesty of Your strength over all who dwell on the earth You made -- and let every made thing know that You made it, and every creature understand that You formed it, and all that breathes say: HaShem, God of Yisrael, is One, and that Oneness holds all things. (Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu r'tzeh vimnuchateinu.) Kad'sheinu b'mitzvotecha v'ten chelkeinu b'toratecha, sab'einu mituvecha v'samcheinu bishu'atecha, (v'hanchileinu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava uvratzon Shabbat kodshecha, v'yanuchu vo Yisra'el m'kad'shei sh'mecha,) v'taher libeinu l'ovd'cha be'emet, ki ata Elohim emet, ud'varcha emet v'kayam la'ad. >> The lines in parentheses are added when Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat. Baruch ata Adonai, melech al kol ha'aretz, m'kadesh (haShabbat v')Yisra'el v'Yom haZikaron. English: (Our God and God of our ancestors, take pleasure in our rest.) Make us holy through Your mitzvot and give us our portion in Your Torah; fill us with Your goodness and gladden us with Your saving help; (in love and favor, grant us Your holy Shabbat as our inheritance, and let Yisrael, who make Your Name holy, rest on it;) and make our hearts pure to serve You in truth -- for You are the God of truth, and Your word is truth, enduring forever. Blessed are You, Eternal One over all the earth, who makes holy (Shabbat and) Yisrael and the Day of Remembrance. page 159 Avodah R'tzeh Adonai Eloheinu b'am'cha Yisra'el. Utfilatam b'ahava t'kabel b'ratzon, ut'hi l'ratzon tamid avodat Yisra'el amecha. El karov l'chol kor'av, p'neh el avadecha v'chaneinu. Sh'foch ruchacha aleinu, V'techezena eineinu b'shuvcha l'Tziyon b'rachamim. Baruch ata Adonai, hamachazir sh'chinato l'Tziyon. English: Take pleasure, Eternal our God, in Your people Yisrael and in their prayer; in love receive that prayer with favor, and may the service of Your people Yisrael always be, in truth, for the good. God near to all who call, turn to those who serve You, and be gracious to us. Pour out Your spirit upon us. May our eyes behold Your loving return to Zion. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who returns Your presence to Zion. page 160 Modim Modim anachnu lach, sha'ata hu Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu l'olam va'ed. Tzur chayeinu, magen yish'einu ata hu l'dor vador. Nodeh l'cha unsaper t'hilatecha, al chayeinu ham'surim b'yadecha, v'al nishmoteinu hap'kudot lach, v'al nisecha sheb'chol yom imanu, v'al nifl'otecha v'tovotecha sheb'chol et, erev vavoker v'tzohorayim. Hatov ki lo chalu rachamecha, v'hamrachem ki lo tamu chasadecha, me'olam kivinu lach. V'al kulam yitbarach v'yitromam shimcha malkeinu tamid l'olam va'ed. Uch'tov l'chayim tovim kol b'nei v'ritecha. V'chol hachayim yoducha sela, vihal'lu et shimcha be'emet, ha'El y'shu'ateinu v'ezrateinu sela. Baruch ata Adonai, hatov shimcha ulcha na'eh l'hodot. English: We thank You, for You are the One, our God and the God of our ancestors, forever. Rock of our life, shield of our rescue -- so You are, in every generation. We give thanks and tell Your praise: for our lives, held in Your hand; for our souls, entrusted to You; for Your miracles that are with us every day; and for Your wonders and Your gifts at every moment -- evening, morning, and noon. You are the Good, whose mercies never end; the Compassionate, whose kindnesses never fail, forever we have placed our hope in You. For all these things may Your Name be blessed and raised up, always and forever. And write down for a good life all the children of Your covenant. Let all that lives give thanks to You, and praise Your Name in truth, God of our rescue and our help. Blessed are You, Eternal One, whose Name is Goodness, and to whom thanks are due. page 161 Sim Shalom Sim shalom tova uvracha, chein vachesed v'rachamim, aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el amecha. Barcheinu avinu kulanu k'echad b'or panecha, ki v'or panecha natata lanu Adonai Eloheinu torat chayim v'ahavat chesed, utz'daka uvracha v'rachamim v'chayim v'shalom. V'tov b'einecha l'varech et am'cha Yisra'el b'chol et uvchol sha'a bishlomecha. Ten Days of Awe B'sefer chayim, b'racha v'shalom, ufarnasa tova, nizacher v'nikatev l'fanecha, anachnu v'chol am'cha beit Yisra'el, l'chayim tovim ulshalom. Baruch ata Adonai, oseh hashalom. English: Grant peace, goodness and blessing, grace and love and mercy, upon us and upon all Yisrael Your people. Bless us, our Source, all of us as one, in the light of Your face -- for by the light of Your face You gave us, Eternal our God, a Torah of life and the love of kindness, tzedakah and blessing and mercy and life and peace. And may it be good in Your eyes to bless Your people Yisrael, in every season and at every hour, with Your peace. May we all be written in the book of life, for blessing, for peace, and for a good living: us, and all Your people, Yisrael, for a good life and for shalom. Blessed are You, Adonai, who calls us to create a world of peace. page 162 Elohai N'tzor Elohai, n'tzor l'shoni mera, usfatai midaber mirma, v'limkal'lai nafshi tidom, v'nafshi ke'afar lakol tihyeh. P'tach libi b'toratecha, uvmitzvotecha tirdof nafshi. V'chol hachosh'vim alai ra'a, m'hera hafer atzatam v'kalkel machashavtam. Aseh l'ma'an sh'mecha, aseh l'ma'an y'minecha, aseh l'ma'an k'dushatecha, aseh l'ma'an toratecha. L'ma'an yechal'tzun y'didecha, hoshi'a y'min'cha va'aneni. Yihyu l'ratzon imrei fi v'hegyon libi l'fanecha, Adonai tzuri v'go'ali. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking deceit. To those who curse me, let my soul stay silent; let my soul be humble as the dust before all. Open my heart to Your Torah, that my soul may pursue Your mitzvot. And all who plan evil against me -- quickly undo their designs and unravel their schemes. Act for the sake of Your Name; act for the sake of Your right hand; act for the sake of Your holiness; act for the sake of Your Torah. That those You love may be freed, let Your right hand save -- answer me. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Eternal One, my Rock and my Redeemer. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 163 page 164 continued Avinu Malkeinu Traditionally not on Shabbat Avinu Malkeinu, sh'ma koleinu, chus v'rachem aleinu. English: ... hear our voice; spare us, have mercy on us. Avinu Malkeinu, chatanu l'fanecha. English: ... we have sinned before You. Avinu Malkeinu, ein lanu melech ela ata. English: ... we have no sovereign but You. Avinu Malkeinu, s'lach umchal l'chol avonoteinu. English: ... forgive and pardon all our wrongs. Avinu Malkeinu, aseh l'ma'an harugim al shem kodshecha. English: ... act for the sake of those killed for the holiness of Your Name. Avinu Malkeinu, chamol aleinu v'al olaleinu v'tapeinu. English: ... have mercy on us, and on our infants, and on our children. Avinu Malkeinu, kaleh dever v'cherev v'ra'av me'aleinu. English: ... end plague and sword and hunger among us; Avinu Malkeinu, kaleh kol tzar umastin me'aleinu. English: ... end every foe and adversary. Avinu Malkeinu, kotveinu b'sefer chayim tovim. English: ... write us in the book of a good life; Avinu Malkeinu, chadesh aleinu shana tova. English: ... renew for us a good year; Avinu Malkeinu, harem keren Yisra'el amecha. English: ... raise up the strength of Your people Yisrael. Avinu Malkeinu, chaneinu va'aneinu ki ein banu ma'asim, aseh imanu tzedaka vachesed v'hoshi'einu. English: Avinu Malkeinu, be gracious and answer us, for we have little merit. Treat us with tzedakah and love. Save us. page 165 page 166 continued Kaddish Shalem Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. Titkabel tz'lot'hon uva'ut'hon d'chol beit Yisra'el kodam avuhon di vishmaya, v'imru: Amen. English: Receive the prayers and pleas of all the house of Yisrael before the One in heaven -- and say: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 167 page 168 continued Aleinu >> Some bow at the word kor'im. Aleinu l'shabeach la'adon hakol, latet g'dula l'yotzer b'reshit, shelo asanu k'goyei ha'aratzot, v'lo samanu k'mishp'chot ha'adama; shelo sam chelkeinu kahem, v'goraleinu k'chol hamonam. Va'anachnu kor'im umishtachavim umodim, lifnei melech malchei ham'lachim, haKadosh baruch hu. English: It is upon us to acknowledge the Oneness of Creation, and to celebrate the majesty of it all -- we who were not made like the nations of the lands, nor set like the families of the earth; whose portion is not theirs, whose lot is our own. And so we bend, and bow, and give thanks before what is beyond every power, the Holy One of blessing. As it is written in the Torah Shehu noteh shamayim v'yosed aretz, umoshav y'karo bashamayim mima'al, ushchinat uzo b'govhei m'romim. Hu Eloheinu ein od, emet malkeinu efes zulato, kakatuv b'torato: v'yadata hayom vahashevota el l'vavecha, ki Adonai hu ha'Elohim bashamayim mima'al v'al ha'aretz mitachat, ein od. English: The heavens stretched wide, the earth set on its foundations, glory and strength filling the highest heights -- this is our God; there is no other. As it is written in the Torah: Know this day and take it to heart, that the Eternal is God in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other. Al ken n'kaveh l'cha Adonai Eloheinu, lir'ot m'hera b'tif'eret uzecha, l'ha'avir gilulim min ha'aretz, v'ha'elilim karot yikaretun, l'taken olam b'malchut Shaddai. V'chol b'nei vasar yikr'u vishmecha, l'hafnot eilecha kol rish'ei aretz. Yakiru v'yed'u kol yosh'vei tevel, ki l'cha tichra kol berech, tishava kol lashon. L'fanecha Adonai Eloheinu yichr'u v'yipolu, v'lichvod shimcha y'kar yitenu, vikab'lu chulam et ol malchutecha, v'timloch aleihem m'hera l'olam va'ed. Ki hamalchut shel'cha hi, ul'olmei ad timloch b'chavod, kakatuv b'toratecha: Adonai yimloch l'olam va'ed. V'ne'emar: v'haya Adonai l'melech al kol ha'aretz, bayom hahu yihyeh Adonai echad ushmo echad. English: And so we hope in You, the Eternal our God: soon to see the splendor of Your strength, when every idol and false god is swept from the earth, and the world is mended whole in the oneness of the Almighty. All who live will call on Your Name, and earth's wrongdoers will turn back to You. Let the world come to know that every knee bends and every tongue swears true before You. Before You, Eternal our God, may all bow low, honor Your Name, and take on together the obligation of Oneness, soon and always. All is Yours, and forever You endure in glory, as it is written in Your Torah: The Eternal will reign forever and ever. And it is said: the Eternal shall be sovereign over all the earth; on that day the Eternal shall be One, and the Name One. page 169 page 170 continued Mourner's Kaddish Yitgadal v'yitkadash sh'meh raba. (Amen.) B'alma di v'ra chir'uteh, v'yamlich malchuteh b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvchayei d'chol beit Yisra'el, ba'agala uvizman kariv, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be made great and holy in the world that was created by divine will. May a world made whole take hold in your lifetime and in your days and in the life of all the house of Yisrael, swiftly and soon -- and say: Amen. All Y'he sh'meh raba m'varach l'alam ulalmei almaya. Yitbarach v'yishtabach v'yitpa'ar v'yitromam v'yitnase v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu, l'eila ul'eila mikol birchata v'shirata, tushb'chata v'nechamata da'amiran b'alma, v'imru: Amen. English: May the great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and celebrated be the Name of the Holy One of blessing -- far, far beyond any blessing or song, any praise or consolation that can be spoken in the world -- and say: Amen. Y'he sh'lama raba min sh'maya, v'chayim aleinu v'al kol Yisra'el, v'imru: Amen. Oseh hashalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu, v'al kol Yisra'el, v'al kol yosh'vei tevel, v'imru: Amen. English: May great peace from heaven, and life, be upon us and upon all Yisrael -- and say: Amen. May the One who makes the peace in the high places make peace for us, for all Yisrael, and for all who dwell on earth -- and say: Amen. page 171 page 172 continued Birkat Kohanim Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu, bar'cheinu bab'racha ham'shuleshet baTorah, hak'tuva al y'dei Moshe avdecha, ha'amura mipi Aharon uvanav kohanim am k'doshecha, ka'amur: English: Our God and God of our ancestors -- bless us with the threefold blessing of the Torah, written by the hand of Moses Your servant, spoken by Aaron and his sons, the priests, Your holy people, as it is said: Y'varech'cha Adonai v'yishm'recha. Ya'er Adonai panav eilecha vichuneka. Yisa Adonai panav eilecha v'yasem l'cha shalom. English: May the Eternal bless you and keep you. May the Holy One's face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May HaShem's face turn toward you and grant you peace. page 173 page 174 continued page 175 continued Havdalah >> On a weekday: wine and the blessing of separation only. >> Not said if Shabbat follows. Verses of comfort Hineh El y'shuati evtach v'lo efchad, ki ozi v'zimrat Yah Adonai, vay'hi li lishua. Ush'avtem mayim b'sason mima'aynei hay'shua. La'Adonai hay'shua, al am'cha virchatecha sela. Adonai tz'va'ot imanu, misgav lanu Elohei Ya'akov sela. Adonai tz'va'ot, ashrei adam botei'ach bach. Adonai hoshi'a, hamelech ya'aneinu v'yom kor'einu. LaY'hudim hayta ora v'simcha v'sason vikar. Ken tihyeh lanu. Kos y'shu'ot esa, uvshem Adonai ekra. English: Here -- God is my rescue; I will trust, and not be afraid. Yah is my strength and my song; the Eternal has become my saving help. With joy you will draw water from the springs of rescue. Rescue belongs to the Eternal; Your blessing rests on Your people -- selah. Source of all being is with us; the God of Jacob is a safe high place for us -- selah. Source of all being -- happy is the person who trusts in You. Save us, Eternal One; may the Sovereign answer us on the day we call. For the Jews there was light and joy, gladness and honor -- so may it be for us. I raise the cup of rescue, and call out in the Name of the Eternal. Blessing over the wine Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei p'ri hagafen. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine. >> Only as Shabbat ends: spices, and a flame. Over spices Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei minei v'samim. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of every kind of fragrance. Over fire Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei m'orei ha'eish. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of the lights of fire. Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, hamavdil bein kodesh l'chol, bein or l'choshech, bein Yisra'el la'amim, bein yom hash'vi'i l'sheshet y'mei hama'aseh. Baruch ata Adonai, hamavdil bein kodesh l'chol. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who separates holy from ordinary, light from darkness, Yisrael from the peoples, the seventh day from the six days of making. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who separates holy from ordinary. Hamavdil -- the closing song Hamavdil bein kodesh l'chol, chatoteinu hu yimchol, zar'einu v'chaspeinu yarbeh kachol, v'chakochavim balaila. English: The One who separates holy from ordinary pardons our sins -- and multiplies our children and our livelihood, like the sand, like the stars in the night. Eliyahu HaNavi Eliyahu hanavi, Eliyahu haTishbi, Eliyahu haGil'adi, bimheira yavo eileinu im Mashiach ben David. English: Elijah the prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah of Gilead -- may he come to us soon, and with him Mashiach ben David. page 176 V'shamru On Shabbat V'shamru v'nei Yisra'el et haShabbat, la'asot et haShabbat l'dorotam b'rit olam. Beini uvein b'nei Yisra'el ot hi l'olam, ki sheshet yamim asa Adonai et hashamayim v'et ha'aretz, uvayom hash'vi'i shavat vayinafash. English: The people of Yisrael shall keep Shabbat, observing Shabbat in every generation as a covenant for all time. It is a sign forever between Me and the people of Yisrael, for in six days the Eternal made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day rested and drew breath. >> Return to Tik'u vaChodesh -- p. . >> On Shabbat only. page 177 page 178 continued page 179 continued Vayechulu & Me'ein Sheva Vay'chulu hashamayim v'ha'aretz v'chol tz'va'am. Vay'chal Elohim bayom hash'vi'i m'lachto asher asa, vayishbot bayom hash'vi'i mikol m'lachto asher asa. Vay'varech Elohim et yom hash'vi'i vay'kadesh oto, ki vo shavat mikol m'lachto asher bara Elohim la'asot. English: The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. On the seventh day God completed the work that had been made, and rested on the seventh day from all the work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation. The Opening Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu -- Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak, ve'lohei Ya'akov; Elohei Sara, Elohei Rivka, Elohei Le'a, ve'lohei Rachel, Elohei Bilha, ve'lohei Zilpa -- ha'El hagadol hagibor v'hanora, El elyon koneh shamayim va'aretz. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, God of our ancestors -- God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; God of Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah -- the great, the mighty, the awesome; God Most High, maker of heaven and earth. Magen Avot -- the sevenfold blessing Magen avot v'imahot bidvaro, m'chayeh hakol/meitim b'ma'amaro, haMelech hakadosh she'ein kamohu, hameniach l'amo b'yom Shabbat kodsho, ki vam ratza l'haniach lahem. L'fanav na'avod b'yir'a vafachad, v'nodeh lishmo b'chol yom tamid me'ein hab'rachot. El hahoda'ot, Adon hashalom, m'kadesh haShabbat um'varech shvi'i, umeniach bikdusha l'am m'dushnei oneg, zecher l'ma'asei v'reshit. English: Shield of our ancestors by a word; giving life to all / reviving the dead by a spoken promise. The holy Sovereign, beyond compare, settles the people into rest on the holy day of Shabbat, for in them God delighted, to give them rest. Before this Presence we serve in awe and trembling, giving thanks to the Name every day, always, an echo of all the blessings. God of all gratitude, Source of peace, who hallows Shabbat and blesses the seventh day, giving rest in holiness to a people brimming with delight -- a remembrance of creation. Eloheinu ve'lohei avoteinu v'imoteinu r'tzeh vimnuchateinu, kad'sheinu b'mitzvotecha v'ten chelkeinu b'toratecha, sab'einu mituvecha v'samcheinu bishu'atecha, v'taher libeinu l'ovd'cha be'emet, v'hanchileinu Adonai Eloheinu b'ahava uvratzon Shabbat kodshecha, v'yanuchu vah Yisra'el m'kad'shei sh'mecha. Baruch ata Adonai m'kadesh haShabbat. English: Our God and God of our ancestors -- take pleasure in our rest. Make us holy through Your mitzvot and give us our portion in Your Torah; fill us with Your goodness, gladden us with Your saving help, and make our hearts pure to serve You in truth. In love and favor, grant us Your holy Shabbat as our inheritance, and let Yisrael, who make Your Name holy, find rest in her. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who makes Shabbat holy. >> Return to Kaddish Shalem -- p. . page 180 Vatodi'einu Motza'ei Shabbat Vatodi'einu Adonai Eloheinu et mishp'tei tzidkecha, vat'lam'deinu la'asot chukei r'tzonecha, vatiten lanu Adonai Eloheinu mishpatim y'sharim v'torot emet, chukim umitzvot tovim, vatanchileinu z'manei sason umo'adei kodesh v'chagei n'dava, vatorisheinu k'dushat Shabbat uch'vod mo'ed vachagigat haregel, vatavdel Adonai Eloheinu bein kodesh l'chol, bein or l'choshech, bein Yisra'el la'amim, bein yom hash'vi'i l'sheshet y'mei hama'aseh, bein k'dushat Shabbat likdushat yom tov hivdalta, v'et yom hash'vi'i misheshet y'mei hama'aseh kidashta, hivdalta v'kidashta et am'cha Yisra'el bikdushatecha. English: You made known to us, Eternal our God, the ways of Your justice, and taught us to carry out what Your will asks; You gave us upright laws and teachings of truth, good statutes and mitzvot; You gave us as our inheritance seasons of gladness, holy festivals, and freely-offered feasts, and handed down to us the holiness of Shabbat, the honor of the festival, and the joy of the pilgrimage. You set apart the holy from the ordinary, light from darkness, Yisrael from the peoples, the seventh day from the six days of making; You set apart the holiness of Shabbat from the holiness of the festival, and made the seventh day holy above the six days of making -- setting apart and making holy Your people Yisrael in Your holiness. >> Return to K'dushat HaYom -- p. . page 181 Vayechulu at the Kiddush >> On Shabbat, the Kiddush opens here Vayechulu Vay'chulu hashamayim v'ha'aretz v'chol tz'va'am. Vay'chal Elohim bayom hash'vi'i m'lachto asher asa, vayishbot bayom hash'vi'i mikol m'lachto asher asa. Vay'varech Elohim et yom hash'vi'i vay'kadesh oto, ki vo shavat mikol m'lachto asher bara Elohim la'asot. English: The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. On the seventh day God completed the work that had been made, and rested on the seventh day from all the work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation. >> Return to the Kiddush -- p. . page 182 Yaknehaz >> On the second night, when it follows Shabbat Motza'ei Shabbat -- over fire Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, borei m'orei ha'eish. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, Creator of the lights of fire. Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, hamavdil bein kodesh l'chol, bein or l'choshech, bein Yisra'el la'amim, bein yom hash'vi'i l'sheshet y'mei hama'aseh, bein k'dushat Shabbat likdushat yom tov hivdalta, v'et yom hash'vi'i misheshet y'mei hama'aseh kidashta, hivdalta v'kidashta et am'cha Yisra'el bikdushatecha. Baruch ata Adonai, hamavdil bein kodesh l'kodesh. English: Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Source of the universe, who separates holy from ordinary, light from darkness, Yisrael from the peoples, the seventh day from the six days of making; who has set apart the holiness of Shabbat from the holiness of the festival, and made the seventh day holy above the six days of making -- setting apart and making holy Your people Yisrael in Your holiness. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who separates holy from holy. >> Return to the Kiddush -- p. .