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Tikkun Olam Chavurah
& Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Yom Kippur Morning Service / 1 Women’s Wisdom Has Built This House / 2 “Taking It Off” by Ellie Schoenfeld / 2 “Shekhina Mishkani” by Susan Rothbaum / 2 “The House of Belonging” by David Whyte / 3 [Ask the tree or the house] by Gregory Orr / 4 Nishmat Chayay by Marcia Falk / 4 “Yom Kippur 5766” by Jane Ellen Glasser / 5 “Asher Yatza” by Elliot Rose Kukla / 6 Baruch She’amar / 6 Morning Blessings / 7 "Sabbath 1979 I” by Wendell Berry / 8 “The Leaves Believe,” poem by Lucille Clifton, music by Karen Escovitz / 8 “Prayer” by Marie Howe / 9 “Yesh Adonai” by Shefa Gold / 9 “Gatherings” by Elliott batTzedek / 10 “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass / 10 Osah Shalom by Holly Taya Shere / 10 A Body-Prayer for Teshuvah / 11 Makor Hachalomot by Susan Rothbaum / 12 “A Plea for Mercy” by Anne Porter / 12 Ki Anu Amecha by Elliott batTzedek / 13 “A Prayer Among Friends” by John Daniel / 14 “An Ashamnu for the Mindset of Privilege” by Elliott batTzedek / 15 “Al Chet: A Confession of Communal Complicity” by Rabbi Brent Rosen / 16 “Avinu Malkeynu” / 18 13 Attributes of Compassion and Forgiveness / 20 Yihiyu L’ratzon / 20 U’netaneh Tokef by Rabbi Brant Rosen / 21 Ilu finu / 22 “God’s Grief” by Ellen Bass / 23 “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale” by Dan Albergotti / 24 Lo Aleynu / 24
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Yizkor / 25 “The Blue Address Book” by Jane Shore / 26 “After” by Eve Grubin / 27 “oh antic God” by Lucille Clifton / 27 “Let Me Please Look Into My Window” by Gerald Stern / 28 [How easy to give up hope] by Gregory Orr / 28 “My Ancestors Speak” by Anna Margolin / 29 “Song of Myself: 52” by Walt Whitman / 30 “Heavy” by Mary Oliver / 31 “Making Things Right” by Barbara Bloom / 32 “Failure” by Philip Schultz / 33 Mourner’s Kaddish / 34 Mourner’s Kaddish by Elliott batTzedek / 35
Ne’ilah / 36 “A Short Testament” by Anne Porter / 37 “Through the Arch” by Elliott batTzedek / 38 “I’m Alive, I Believe in Everything” by Lesley Choyce / 39 “Wage Peace” by Judyth Hill / 40 “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton / 41 “Miriam Ha’N’viah” by Rabbi Gal Berner / 42 “Eliyahu Hanavi” / 42
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miy¨ ¦ p zFnk§ g© / Women’s Wisdom text compiled by Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, music by Juliet Spitzer Hochmot nashim banta veyta Bo-u sha’areyha betoda chatzeroteyha bit’hila
Dzi ¨ a¥ dz¨ p§ A¨ miy¨ ¦ p zFnk§ g© dcFz ¨ A§ di ¨ x¥r ¨ y§ E`ŸA d¨ld¦ z§ A¦ di ¨ zŸ ¥ xv¥ g©
Women’s wisdom has built Her house (Proverbs 14:1) Let us come into Her gates with thanks, Her courtyard with praise (Psalms 100:4) LISTEN Taking It Off Ellie Schoenfeld Some years are just one hair shirt layered onto another, each one doing its best to fuse with skin. Now is the time I will finally peel them off, a slow psychological striptease. I examine each one only briefly then throw it onto an enormous fire, that original bonfire fueled by grace and forgiveness, by the bones of a thousand other troubles. Its tongues of flame sing torch songs and the blues, praises for every dull, flawed, and disastrous thing. Its flames lick and illuminate wounds, leave smoke and spark and new mirrors.
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Finally the last one comes off. I stand here naked and perfect, just like you, just like everyone.
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i¦pM© W§ n¦ d¨pk¦ W ¤ / Shechina Mishkani Susan Rothbaum
i¦pM© W§ n¦ d¨pik¦ W§ d¨pik¦ W§ oM© W§ n¦ i¦p`¨ Shechina mishkani, ani mishkan Shechina Shechina is my dwelling place, I am the dwelling place of the Shechina.
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FRINGES The House of Belonging David Whyte I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first easy rhythm with which I breathed myself to sleep, it must have been the prayer I said speaking to the otherness of the night. And I thought this is the good day you could meet your love, this is the black day someone close to you could die.
and I found myself sitting up in the quiet pathway of light, the tawny close grained cedar burning round me like fire and all the angels of this housely heaven ascending through the first roof of light the sun has made. This is the bright home in which I live, this is where I ask my friends to come, this is where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. This is the temple of my adult aloneness and I belong to that aloneness as I belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonging.
This is the day you realize how easily the thread is broken between this world and the next
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ALL from Gregory Orr Ask the tree or the house; Ask the rose or the fire Hydrant - everything’s Waiting for you to notice. Everything’s waiting for you To wrap your heart around it.
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i©Ig© zn© W¦ § p/ Morning Blessing by Marcia Falk :xW¨ ¦ i iA¦ l¦ ax¤w¤ e§ Jx¥a¨ Y§ i©Ig© zn© W¦ §p Nishmat hayay t'vareykh v'kerev libi yashir
i¦p` £ dcFn\D ¤ cFn ¨ iA¦ x§w¦ A§ dn¨ W§ ¨ p cFr lM¨ Kol od n'shamah b'kirbi modah/modeh ani
The soul of my life will bless, and the innermost part of my heart will sing. As long as breath is in my innermost being, I give thanks.
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LISTEN Yom Kippur 5766 Jane Ellen Glasser Years ago I could sit in temple and wring my hands over an extra-marital affair or atone for time pilfered from my children. Today, I’m at a loss. Perhaps if I assembled my peccadilloes they would amount to something. Certainly I’ve told a lie or two although just now I can’t remember about what or to whom. In a year I lost my temper once but losing it you’d think it wouldn’t be troublesome. Besides, the situation warranted a show of huff and puff, though, I admit, it had no teeth. It’s been decades since I’ve stolen somebody’s heart, but then some acts of rectitude arise from a want of opportunity. Perhaps if I had taken to drink I’d have an easier time at this: broken plates, broken bones, broken homes—sins worthy of a fast. I’m so pathetic I can’t even recall crimes committed by the subconscious. I’m sure I’ve never tortured, raped, killed anybody in a dream. I smoke too much, that’s true, but when did that ever rate a flagellant’s hair shirt and whip! Besides,
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I hate to think of myself as a quitter. Perhaps mine is a sin of omission, that refusal to recognize the self as fully human, the flawed work of a flawless God. Next year, I plan to do better.
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Asher Yatzar (The One who forms) Elliot Rose Kukla
mc`d z` dxvi xy` mlerd jln epidel` ii z` jexa dnkga Barukh At Adonay Eloheynu Melekh ha’olam asher yatzrah et ha'adam b'khokhma Blessed are You, Eternal One our God, Ruler of the universe, who has formed the human being with wisdom. You created in the human body openings upon openings and cavities upon cavities. It is clear and well known that if just one of these unique valves within the complexity of each body was blocked or ruptured, it would be impossible to survive. May the day come when it is also obvious and evident that if just one unique body within the complexity of Your world is blocked or ruptured, if just one of us is not allowed to make our distinctive beauty manifest in the world, then it is impossible for all of Your creation to thrive and rise each day joyfully before You. Blessed are You, Source of all life and form, who implanted within us the ability to shape and reshape ourselves – molding, changing, transitioning and adorning our bodies – so that the fullness of our many genders, the abundance of our desires and the diversity of our souls can be revealed. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who has made me Your partner in daily completing the task of my own formation.
SING Baruch Hu / B’rucha Hi This is my body/ this is my home Baruch Hu / Baruch Sh’mo B’rucha Hi / Baruch Sh’ma
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Morning Blessings / xg© X © d©
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Baruh atah adonay eloheynu hey ha’olamim hama’avir shenah me’eyney utnumah me’afapay Blessed are you, Awakener, our God, life of all the worlds, who removes sleep from my eyes and slumber from my eyelids.
min¨ ¦ lFrd¨ ig¥ EpidŸl ¥ ` ¡ dedi dY¨ `© KExA¨ gŸ© M sr¨ ¥ Il © ozFP ¥ d© Baruh atah adonay eloheynu hey ha’olamim hanoten laya’ef ko’ah. Blessed are you, Renewing One, our God, life of all the worlds, who gives strength to the weary.
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LISTEN Sabbath 1979 I Wendell Berry I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. Then what is afraid of me comes and lives a while in my sight. What it fears in me leaves me, and the fear of me leaves it. It sings, and I hear its song. Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, and the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song. After days of labor, mute in my consternations, I hear my song at last, and I sing it. As we sing, the day turns, the trees move.
SING The Leaves Believe Poem by Lucille Clifton, music by Karen Escovitz The leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is God. And I agree with the leaves
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LISTEN Prayer Marie Howe Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important calls for my attention—the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage I need to buy for the trip. Even now I can hardly sit here among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside already screeching and banging. The mystics say you are as close as my own breath. Why do I flee from you? My days and nights pour through me like complaints and become a story I forgot to tell. Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning to rise from the chair as soon as I finish this sentence.
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i¨pŸc` ¢ y¥i / Yesh Adonai chant by Shefa Gold
iY¦ r§ c¨ ¨ i `Ÿl ikŸ¦ p`¨ e§ , d¤Gd© mŸewO¨ A© i¨pŸc` ¢ y¥i Yesh Adonai bamakom ha zeh......Va’anochi lo yadati God was in this place and I did not know it.
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CALL AND RESPONSE
dA¨ x© da¨ d £ `© / Gatherings Elliott Femynye batTzedek Gather your strengths and gather your failures Gather your kin and gather your strangers Gather what you love and what you fear Gather what you have done and what you have left undone Gather what you have lost and what you have yet to find Find the courage to proclaim “All we gather is sacred” LISTEN The Thing Is Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obscenity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
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mFlW ¨ dUFr ¤ /Osah Shalom: May She Who Makes Peace Holly Taya Shere
di © nFx ¤ n§ A¦ mFlW ¨ dUFr ¨ Epi¥lr ¨ mFlW ¨ dU ¤r © z© `id¦ Osah shalom bimromavha hi ta’aseh shalom aleynu May She who makes peace shine peace on all of us
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A Body-Prayer for Teshuvah Holy One of Blessing, we have been stiff-necked: stubborn, angry, resentful. Help us to hold our heads high with self respect, but not defensiveness, to let go of old angers. We have refused to acknowledge any view but our own. We've seen only the negative things, which have fed our despair. Help us learn to focus on the fullness of creation. We have clenched our fists in frustration Help our hands to build, change, and nurture. Our knees have trembled with fear. Our feet have shuffled in indifference. Help us have true faith in ourselves and in life, to stride with confidence, generosity and clarity of purpose. We have swallowed injustice, choked on cruelty. Give us a deep hunger for change. We have let our hearts sink and our shoulders sag in discouragement. Let us fill ourselves with faith in the presence of the Shekinah, faith in ourselves, and in each other. We have exhausted our bodies with anxieties, resentments, pointless busyness. Help us feel Your breath within us, our neshama, breath/soul/spirit. During these days of teshuvah, we will right the wrongs we've done to each other. We will turn again towards harmony. Help us to do so in hope and not in despair, with insight and not with a closed heart, with deep conviction and not with shallow formality. May we open ourselves body and soul so that this will be a truly new beginning.
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SING Makor Hachalomot Susan Rothbaum Makor hachalomot (x2) Dabri na, (x3) Va’ani eshma, va’ani eshma v’ezkor
,zFnFlg¨ d© xFwn¨ ...`¨p ixa ¦ c© xŸwf§ `e ¤ rn¨ y§ `¤ ip¦ `© ¨e
Source of dreams, speak to me... And I will listen and I will remember.
LISTEN/ALL A Plea For Mercy Anne Porter Reader: When I am brought before the Lord What can I say to him How plead for mercy? ALL:
I'll say I loved
Reader: I'll say I loved My husband and the five Children we had together Though I was most unworthy ALL:
I'll say I loved
ALL:
I'll say I loved
Reader: I'll say I loved The way that little bird The titmouse flies I'll say I loved ALL: I'll say I loved Its lightness Lilt And beauty.
Reader: I'll say I loved The summer mornings I loved the way the sun comes up And sets the dew on fire I loved the way The cobwebs shine On the tall grass When they are strung with dew Yom Kippur
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Ki Anu Amecha from Rumi, translated by Barks, “Put this design in your carpet” and Jane Kenyon “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks” compiled by Elliott batTzedek I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . . You are wind.
We are dust blown up into shapes.
When the young girl who starves sits down to a table, she will sit beside me. . . . I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . . I am there in the basket of fruit presented to the widow. . . . You are spirit.
We are the opening and closing of our hands.
I am the patient gardener of the dry and weedy garden. . . . I am water rushing to the wellhead, filling the pitcher until it spills. . . . You are water.
We are the millstone.
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. . . . You are the clarity.
We are this language that tries to say it.
I am the heart contracted by joy. . . the longest hair, white before the rest. . . . I am the musk rose opening unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . . I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . . You are joy.
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We are all the different kinds of laughing.
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SING We are blowing dust, You, our wind. We are open hands, You, our spirit. We are the millstone, You, our water. We are fertile ground, You, our gardener We are the search for words, You, our clarity. We are every kind of laugh, You, our joy. You are blowing dust, We, your wind. You are open hands, We, your spirit. You are the millstone, We, your water. You are fertile ground, We, your gardener. You are the search for words, We, your clarity. You are every kind of laugh, We, your joy.
ALL A Prayer Among Friends John Daniel Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive with one another, we walk here in the light of this unlikely world that isn't ours for long. May we spend generously the time we are given. May we enact our responsibilities as thoroughly as we enjoy our pleasures. May we see with clarity, may we seek a vision that serves all beings, may we honor the mystery surpassing our sight, and may we hold in our hands the gift of good work and bear it forth whole, as we were borne forth by a power we praise to this one Earth, this homeland of all we love.
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An Ashamnu for the Mindset of Privilege from Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah We have abandoned, we have appropriated, we have analyzed, we have arbitrated We’ve belittled, we have broken faith, we have turned our backs, we have believed the unbelievable
We have grown numb, we’ve given too little, we’ve given too late, we have given up We have denied, we have distorted, we have hesitated, we have held our tongues
We have victim-blamed, we have zoned out, we have chided, we have chastised We have taken, we have turned away, we have yielded, we have yet to act
We have kept to ourselves, we’ve been complicit, we have laughed off, we have relied on the law, We’ve made excuses, we have minimized, we’ve made light of, we have mocked
We have not noticed, we have neglected, we have negated, we have sent our regrets We’ve averted our eyes, we have forsaken, we have pitied, we’ve failed to imagine new possibilities
We have explained, we’ve criticized, we have rationalized, we’ve refused responsibility, We’ve shamed the innocent, we have silenced, we have suppressed, we have failed to support
We have talked, we have talked, we have talked, but we have not listened we have not sought the truth, we’ve theorized, we have told ourselves lies, and we have believed them
written by Elliott batTzedek with help from Karen Escovitz, Michelle Marks, and Hannah Schwarzschild
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A Confession of Communal Complicity Rabbi Brant Rosen We say together:
Li¤pt§ ¨ l Ep`h¨ g¨ W ¤ `h§ g¥ lr © Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha… For the wrong we have done before you…
Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for forgetting that we were all once strangers in a strange land; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for preferring militarized fences to open borders. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for supporting trade policies and murderous regimes that uproot people, families and communities; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for drawing lines and turning away those who come to our country seeking a better life. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for demonizing migrants as threats to be feared; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for labeling human beings as “illegal.”
Ep©l xR¤ M© Ep¨l lg© n§ ,Ep¨l g©lq§ zFgi¦lq§ DFl © ` ¡ m¨NMª lr © e§ Ve’al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu. For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for internalizing and assenting to racist ideologies; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for allowing oppressive systems to continue unchecked. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for our complicity in regularly profiling, incarcerating and murdering people of color; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for denying fair housing, public schools and greater opportunity to our black and brown communities.
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Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for dehumanizing, excluding and murdering gay, lesbian, trans and queer people; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for shaming and stigmatizing the infirm, the mentally and physically disabled, and the elderly.
Ep©l xR¤ M© Ep¨l lg© n§ ,Ep¨l g©lq§ zFgi¦lq§ DFl © ` ¡ m¨NMª lr © e§ Ve’al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu. For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for buying into and promoting the ideology of American exceptionalism; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for oppressing other peoples and nations in the name of American power and influence; Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for profiting off of weapons of death and destruction; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for contributing to the increased militarization of our nation and our world. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for expanding our military budget while we cut essential services here at home; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for believing that militarism and violence will ensure our collective security.
Ep©l xR¤ M© Ep¨l lg© n§ ,Ep¨l g©lq§ zFgi¦lq§ DFl © ` ¡ m¨NMª lr © e§ Ve’al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu. For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for the destruction of homes, expropriation of land and warehousing of humanity; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for a brutal and crushing military occupation.
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Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for blockading 1.8 million Gazans inside an open air prison; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for repeatedly unleashing devastating military firepower on a population trapped in a tiny strip of land. Al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for wedding sacred Jewish spiritual tradition to political nationalism and militarism; Ve’ al chet she’chatanu lifanecha for rationalizing away Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
Ep©l xR¤ M© Ep¨l lg© n§ ,Ep¨l g©lq§ zFgi¦lq§ DFl © ` ¡ m¨NMª lr © e§ Ve’al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu. For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement.
Avinu Malkeynu
/epkln epia`
English translation by Rabbi Burt Jacobson and David Cooper
miU£ ¦ rn© EpA¨ oi`¥ iM¦ Ep¥pr £ e© Ep¥pg¨ EpM§ ¥ ln© Epia¦ `¨ Epri ¥ WFd ¦ e§ cq¤ g¤ e¨ dw¨ c¨ v§ Epn¨ r¦ dU£ ¥r Avinu malkeynu, honeynu va’aneynu, ki eyn banu ma’asim Aseh imanu tzedakah vahesed v’hoshi’eynu Oh Mother and Father of life Please hear us and give us your grace Our Guide deep within us, O hear us and give us Compassion and mercy and peace O guide us through Your grace, justice and mercy to all O guide us and teach us grant justice and mercy We shall be free once again
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epkln epia` / Avinu Malkaynu - Our Parent, Our Sovereign Teach us how to make this year a new beginning Teach us how to grow from the harshness of life Teach us to change what we cannot accept Teach us to accept that we must change Teach us to face disease and death Teach us how to honor creation Teach us how to make peace through justice Teach us how we can best love our own tribe and not fear others
Our Father, our King Our Mother, our Queen Our Source and our Destiny
Teach us how to pay attention Teach us how to ask for forgiveness when we have wronged Teach us how to grant forgivenes when we are ready Let us find compassion and mercy for ourselves and each other
Our Guide and our Truth Our Past and our Future
Let us write our names in the Book of Life Help us to find meaningful work Teach us to help those who are ill and suffering Help us give love without giving away ourselves
Receive our prayers and deal compassionately with our shortcomings Teach us how to be good lovers and partners Teach us how to be good parents and role models Teach us how to be good children Teach us how to be good friends Teach us how to be good teachers and good students Teach us how to be good people Teach us how to find joy even when it seems impossible Help us to bring full tikkun olam, full healing Help us to be good Jews Teach us how to be one with Your universe Teach us how to be free
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13 Attributes of Compassion and Forgiveness English translation by Rabbi Burt Jacobson
oEPg© e§ mEgx© l`¥ d e d i zn¤ `¤ ¤ e cq¤ g¤ ax©e§ m¦iR© `© Kx¤`¤ mit¨ ¦ l`¨ £ l cq¤ g¤ xvŸ ¥p dw© ¥ pe§ d`¨ H¨ g© e§ rW © t¨ ¤ e oFr ¨ `UŸ ¥p Yud Hey Vav Hey ryl rahum v’hanun Ereh apayim v’rahv hesed ve’emet Notzer hesed l’alafim Nosey avon vafeshah v’hata’ah v’nah’key Shehina, Shehina, Compassion and Tenderness Patience, Forbearance, Kindness, Awareness Bearing love from age to age Lifting guilt and mistakes and making us free
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oFvx§¨l Eid¦ §i
/ Yihiyu L’ratzon
.i¦l`Fb £ e§ ixEv ¦ ¨ii§ ,Li«¤pt§ ¨ l iA¦ ¦ l oFib§ d¤ e§ it¦ ix¥n§ `¦ oFvx§¨l Eid¦ §i Yihiyu l’ratzon imrei fi, v’hegyon libi l’fanecha Adonai tsuri v’goali. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you, Yah, my rock and my redeemer.
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U’netaneh Tokef Rabbi Brant Rosen All:
We declare the terrifying power of this day, this awesome, sacred day. We hear the great shofar sounded once again. We listen for the still, small voice in its wake. All:
xERM¦ mFv mFiaE § oEaz¥ M¦ ¨ i d¨pW ¨ d© W`ŸxA§ ,oEnz¥ g¥ ¨i
B’rosh hashanah yikateyvun, uve’yom tzom kippur yeychatemun. On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Readers:
This is the season we dare to ask out loud: who will live and who will die? Who by famine and who by war; who through oppression and who through neglect; Who by weapons and who by dehumanization; who through hatred and who through ignorance. Who in the dark and who in the bright light of day; who by passion and who by design. All:
xERM¦ mFv mFiaE § oEaz¥ M¦ ¨ i d¨pW ¨ d© W`ŸxA§ ,oEnz¥ g¥ ¨i
B’rosh hashanah yikateyvun, uve’yom tzom kippur yeychatemun. On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Readers:
Who will benefit from power and who will be victimized by it; who will dwell in safety and who will be uprooted. Who will be targeted and who will be collateral damage; who will escape and who will fall. Who will be beaten down and who will rise above; who will find peace and who will dwell in darkness. Who will be protected and who will be vulnerable; who will be counted and who will fall through the cracks.
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All:
,oEnz¥ g¥ ¨ i xERM¦ mFv mFiaE § oEaz¥ M¦ ¨ i d¨pW ¨ d© W`ŸxA§ B’rosh hashanah yikateyvun, uve’yom tzom kippur yeychatemun. On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Readers: Who will be privileged and whose chances will be slim; who will brought in and who will be cast out. Who will be healed and who will not have access to healing; who will be fed and who will go hungry. Who will be loved and who will be despised; who will reach out and who will turn away. Who will written in and who will be erased; who will succumb and who will fight back. All:
,oEnz¥ g¥ ¨ i xERM¦ mFv mFiaE § oEaz¥ M¦ ¨ i d¨pW ¨ d© W`ŸxA§ B’rosh hashanah yikateyvun, uve’yom tzom kippur yeychatemun. On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. All:
.dx¥ ¨fB§ d© rŸ © x z`¤ oixi¦ a£ ¦ rn© dw¨ c¨ vE § ,d¨lit¦ zE § ,daEW ¨ zE § U’teshuvah, u’tefillah u’tzedakah ma’avirin et roah hagezeyrah. But repentance, worship and acts of justice can overturn the harshness of the decree.
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Epit«¦ EN`¦ / Ilu finu Ilu finu maleh shira kayam
m¨IM© dxi¨ W¦ `¥ln¨ Epit«¦ EN`¦
And were our mouth oceans of songs...
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God’s Grief Ellen Bass Great parent who must have started out with such high hopes. What magnitude of suffering, the immensity of guilt, the staggering despair. A mind the size of the sun, burning with longing, a heart huge as a gray whale breaching, streaming seawater against the pale sky. Man god or beast god, god that breathes in every pleated leaf, god of plutonium and penicillin, drunk sleeping on the subway grate, god of Joan of Arc, god of Crazy Horse, Lady Day, bringing us to our knees, god of Houdini with hands like a river, of Einstein, regret running thick in his veins, god of Stalin, god of Somoza, god of the long march, the Trail of Tears, the trains, god of Allende and god of Tookie, the strawberry picker, fire in his back, god of midnight, god of winter, god of rouged children sold with a week’s lodging and airfare to Thailand, god in trouble, god at the end of his ropesleepless, helplessdesperate god, frantic god, whale heart lost in the shallows, beached on the sand, parched, blistered, crushed by gravity’s massive weight.
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Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale Dan Albergotti Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days. Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals. Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices. Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each way for the dim glow of light. Work on your reports. Review each of your life's ten million choices. Endure moments of self-loathing. Find the evidence of those before you. Destroy it. Try to be very quiet, and listen for the sound of gears and moving water. Listen for the sound of your heart. Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait. Be nostalgic. Think of all the things you did and could have done. Remember treading water in the center of the still night sea, your toes pointing again and again down, down into the black depths.
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epilr `l/ Lo Aleynu Lyrics drawn from Pirkei Avot Music by Karen Escovitz
,xFnb¦§ l dk¨ `¨ § ln§ d¨ Epi¥lr ¨ `Ÿl d¨pn¤ n¦ lh¥ a¨ d§ ¦ l oixFg ¦ i¥pA/zFp § A¨ Ep`¨ `ŸlE§ Lo aleiynu ham’lacha ligmor, v’lo anu b’not/b’nei chorin l’hibateil mimena.... It is not upon us to complete the work, neither are we free to desist from it....
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The Blue Address Book Jane Shore Like the other useless things I can't bear to get rid of—her nylon nightgowns, his gold-plated cufflinks, his wooden shoetrees, in a size no one I know can use— I'm stuck with their blue pleather address book, its twenty-six chapters printed in ballpoint pen, X'd out, penciled in, and after she passed away, amended in his hand, recording, as in a family Bible, those generations born, married, and since relocated to their graves: Abramowitz to Zimmerman. Great-uncles, aunts, cousins once removed, whose cheeks I kissed, whose food I ate,
Fogel (Rose and Murray), 474 13th St., Brooklyn, moved to a condo in Boca Raton; Stein (Minnie, sister of Rose), left her Jerome Ave. walk-up for the Yonkers Jewish Nursing Home. The baby-blue cover has a patina of grease, the pages steeped in the cigarette smoke of years spent in my parents' junk drawer. Though scattered in different graveyards, here they're all accounted for. Their souls disperse, dust motes in the air that I inhale.
are in this book still alive, immortal, each name accompanied by a face:
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After Eve Grubin After a loss you live with your gasp, your gaze, with your hungry mouth as you lift the fork. Something Sane. Open the door. A guest sits down at the kitchen table.
oh antic God Lucille Clifton
Washing evening dishes: something simple, something sane. Water dreams over your wrist, your hand, a round transparent dish.
oh antic God return to me my mother in her thirties leaned across the front porch the huge pillow of her breasts pressing against the rail summoning me in for bed.
Something Simple. Night, rusty fire escape. Even the rain: sane.
I am almost the dead woman's age times two.
Urgent street voices; screech of a hinge. Simple. A clanking bang,
I can barely recall her song the scent of her hands though her wild hair scratches my dreams
somebody is closing a gate or opening one.
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at night. return to me, oh Lord of then and now, my mother's calling, her young voice humming my name.
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Let Me Please Look Into My Window Gerald Stern Let me please look into my window on 103rd Street one more time— without crying, without tearing the satin, without touching the white face, without straightening the tie or crumpling the flower. Let me walk up Broadway past Zak's, past the Melody Fruit Store, past Stein's Eyes, past the New Moon Inn, past the Olympia. Let me leave quietly by Gate 29 and fall asleep as we pull away from the ramp into the tunnel. Let me wake up happy, let me know where I am, let me lie still, as we turn left, as we cross the water, as we leave the light.
[How easy to give up hope] Gregory Orr How easy to give up hope. How easy to draw death over you Like a black cloak. Cover Your face, your eyes. Stand There like a dead tree. I did that, claiming it was penance, Claiming I was sorry I was Alive after the beloved died. Who was I fooling? No one Demanded I act that way, Least of all the ones I loved Who longed to live again And could not unless I uttered Their names, unless I told Their stories, unless I felt In my own bones How much they loved the world. Yom Kippur
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My Ancestors Speak Anna Margolin (1887-1952) (translated from the Yiddish by Adrienne Cooper) My ancestors: Men in satin and velvet Long gentle pale faces silk Fainting, glowing lips, Thin hands caress the yellowed books, Deep in the night they speak with God. And merchants from Leipzig and Danzig Clean cuffs the smoke of fine cigars Gemora jokes German manners Their gaze is wise and opaque Wise and sated. Don Juans, merchants and seekers after God. A drunkard, A couple of converts in Kiev. My ancestors: Women like idols draped in diamonds, Darkened red in Turkish shawls, Heavy folds of Lyon satin. But their bodies are weeping wiollows And their fingers withered flowers And in their faded veiled eyes Is dead desire. And grand ladies in calico and linen, Big boned and strong and agile With snide little smiles With quiet talk and strange silences In the evenings they show themselves
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At the window of the poor house Like statutes And in the dimming eyes Cruel desire. And a couple Of whom I am ashamed. They are all my ancestors Blood of my blood And flame of my flame Dead and living come together Sorrowful grotesque and big They go through me as through a darkened house Go with prayers and curses and moans, Shake my heart like a copper bell My tongue beats in my mouth I don’t know my own voice My ancestors speak.
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Song of Myself: 52 Walt Whitman The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
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Heavy Mary Oliver That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying
Have you heard the laughter that comes, now and again, out of my startled mouth?
I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had His hand in this,
How I linger to admire, admire, admire the things of this world that are kind, and maybe
as well as friends. Still, I was bent, and my laughter, as the poet said,
also troubled--roses in the wind, the sea geese on the steep waves, a love to which there is no reply?
was nowhere to be found. Then said my friend Daniel (brave even among lions), “It’s not the weight you carry but how you carry it--books, bricks, grief--it’s all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it when you cannot, and would not, put it down.” So I went practicing. Have you noticed?
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Making Things Right for my father Barbara Bloom Driving through the apple orchards heavy with fruit, I realize I have let the anniversary of your death slip by—ten years already, or is it eleven? It's a gray morning, and the clouds press down, obscuring the sun. I wonder if you knew when you had to be helped on with your shoes for the ride to the hospital that you would never again stroke your cat or walk into your lab room with its walls lined with antique instruments and books. What I remember most from that time is standing by your bed as you grew smaller and smaller, less and less of you who had so frightened me as a child, and looking down at you lying there quietly when it was too late to talk. I just held your hand and told you I loved you. I don't know what you heard or what you knew, but those words were all that was left that could matter before you leapt off from your bed in that tiny white room into something huge
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Failure Philip Schultz To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable. The rabbi who read a stock eulogy about a man who didn't belong to or believe in anything was both a failure and a nobody. He failed to imagine the son and wife of the dead man being shamed by each word. To understand that not believing in or belonging to anything demanded a kind of faith and buoyancy. An uncle, counting on his fingers my father's business failures— a parking lot that raised geese, a motel that raffled honeymoons, a bowling alley with roving mariachis— failed to love and honor his brother, who showed him how to whistle under covers, steal apples with his right or left hand. Indeed, my father was comical. His watches pinched, he tripped on his pant cuffs and snored loudly in movies, where his weariness overcame him finally. He didn't believe in: savings insurance newspapers vegetables good or evil human frailty history or God. Our family avoided us, fearing boils. I left town but failed to get away.
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mFz¨i WiC¦ w© / Mourner’s Kaddish Kil¦ n© § ie§ DzEr ¥ x§k¦ `x¦a§ ic¦ `n¨ l§ r¨ A§ `A¨ x© Dn¥ W§ WC© w© z¦ § ie§ lC© © bz¦ §i l`¥ xU¦ ¨ i ziA¥ lk¨ c§ i¥IgaE © oFkinFi ¥ aE § oFki¥Ig© A§ DzEk ¥ l§ n© .on¥ `¨ Exn§ `§ ¦ i aix¦w¨ on© f§ aE ¦ `l¨ ¨ br© A© .`¨In© l§ r¨ in¥ l§ r¨ lE § ml© r¨ l§ Kx©a¨ n§ `A¨ x© Dn¥ W§ `d§ ¥i dN¤ r© z¦ § ie§ xC© d© z¦ § ie§ `U© ¥ pz¦ § ie§ mnFx © z¦ § ie§ x`© R¨ z¦ § ie§ gA© Y© W¦ § ie§ Kx©A¨ z¦ §i `z¨ k¨ x§A¦ lM¨ on¦ `N¨ r¥ l§ `N¨ r¥ l§ `Ed Kix¦A§ `W ¨ c§ wª C§ Dn¥ W§ lN© d© z¦ § ie§ .on¥ `¨ Exn§ `¦ e§ `n¨ l§ r¨ A§ oxi¨ n¦ ` £ C© `z¨ n¨ g¤ ¤ pe§ `z¨ g¨ A§ W§ Yª `z¨ xi¨ W¦ e§ .on` ¥ Exn§ `¦ e§ l`¥ x¨U¦ § i lM¨ lr© e§ Epil¥ r¨ mi¦Ig© e§ `¨In© W§ on¦ `A¨ x© `n¨ l¨ W§ `d§ ¥i lr© e§ l`¥ x¨U¦ § i lM¨ lr© e§ Epil¥ r¨ mFlW ¨ dU ¤ r© £ i `Ed einFx ¨ n§ A¦ mFlW ¨ dUFr ¤ .on¥ `¨ Exn§ `¦ e§ la¥ z¥ ia¥ WFi § lM¨ lr© e§ l`r ¥ n© W¦ § i lM¨ Yitgadal veyitkadash shemey raba be’alma divra hiruty veyamlih malhutey behayeyhon uvyomeyhon uvhayey dehol beyt yisra’el ba’agala uvizman kariv ve’imru amen. Yehey shemey raba mevarah le’alam ulalmey almaya. Yitbarah veyistabah veyitpa’ar veyitromam veyitnasey veyit-hadar veyitaleh veyit-halal shemey dekudsha berih hu le’ela le’ela min kol birhata veshirata tushbehata venehemata da’amiran be’alma ve’imru amen. Yehey shelama raba min shemaya vehayim Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’imru amen. Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya’aseh shalom Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’al kol yishma’el ve’al kol yoshvey tevel ve’imru amen.
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ALL Mourner’s Kaddish Elliott batTzedek So often am I lost, yet through the pall, yet through the tarnish, show me the way back, through my betrayals, my dismay, my heart’s leak, my mind’s sway, eyes’ broken glow, groan of the soul—which convey all that isn’t real, for every soul to These Hands careen. And let us say, amen. Say you will show me the way back, my Rock, my Alarm. Lead the way, Oh my Yah And yet in shock and yet in shame and yet in awe and yet to roam and yet to stay and yet right here and yet away and yet —“Halleluyah!” my heartbeat speaks, for You live, for You live, in all this murk and too in the clear and too in our wreckage. You are the mirror of our souls, let us say: amen Life may harm me, rob me, ream me raw, try me, even slay me Over all You will prevail. And let us say: Amen Say You shall loan me a tomorrow, Say You shall loan another day to all who are called Yisrael and all called Yishmael and all called We and They, and let us say, Amen
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A Short Testament Anne Porter Whatever harm I may have done In all my life in all your wide creation If I cannot repair it I beg you to repair it, And then there are all the wounded The poor the deaf the lonely and the old Whom I have roughly dismissed As if I were not one of them. Where I have wronged them by it And cannot make amends I ask you To comfort them to overflowing, And where there are lives I may have withered around me, Or lives of strangers far or near That I've destroyed in blind complicity, And if I cannot find them Or have no way to serve them, Remember them. I beg you to remember them When winter is over And all your unimaginable promises Burst into song on death's bare branches.
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Through the arch Elliott batTzedek Before the stone arch, you stand, deep in the desert, your heart beating, thrumming, calling me. So small to face such a vast space. I say It is only an accident of sediment, of erosion. Only an arch. You can see the far side, there it is no different from where you stand— but did you call me to proclaim facts? You know what you need—you need to calm your trembling skin, you need to gather the insistence of every cell, you need to feel how the ground may give way beneath the burden of you. I smell the detergent and dread of your sweat, you civilized animal walking into the wilderness your soul creates as it throbs through your veins. Your foot rises. Your leg reaches out. When your foot settles you will be yourself only the way the breeze remains itself inside the tornado, and you will discover what it is to honor something beyond your own infinitely elaborate beautiful brain. Lift your second foot and you find yourself unafraid to praise, to invoke, to summon, to draw down the moon, to invent a dozen new awkward human invitations to me. Clumsy, rough, but carried along by the same singing rush you create with each tender step. I watch you go, your trail incandescent. You will discover that motion is a kind of faith, and you will go on moving and moving until you find you no longer need to move at all. At this still point you will let me brush the last of the dust from your brow. You’ll say But getting here was so easy! And I’ll say What evidence did you ever have that redemption would be hard?
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I'm Alive, I Believe In Everything Lesley Choyce Self. Brotherhood. God. Zeus. Communism. Capitalism. Buddha. Vinyl records. Baseball. Ink. Trees. Cures for disease. Saltwater. Literature. Walking. Waking. Arguments. Decisions. Ambiguity. Absolutes. Presence. Absence. Positive and Negative. Empathy. Apathy. Sympathy and entropy. Verbs are necessary. So are nouns. Empty skies. Dark vacuums of night. Visions. Revisions. Innocence. I've seen All the empty spaces yet to be filled. I've heard All of the sounds that will collect at the end of the world. And the silence that follows. I'm alive, I believe in everything I'm alive, I believe in it all. Waves lapping on the shore. Skies on fire at sunset. Old men dancing on the streets. Paradox and possibility. Sense and sensibility. Cold logic and half truth. Final steps and first impressions. Fools and fine intelligence. Chaos and clean horizons. Vague notions and concrete certainty. Optimism in the face of adversity. I'm alive, I believe in everything I'm alive, I believe in it all.
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Wage Peace Judyth Hill
Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact. Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud. Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers. Make soup. Learn to knit and make a hat. Think of chaos as dancing raspberries, imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish. Swim for the other side. Wage peace. Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious. Have a cup of tea and rejoice. Act as if armistice has already arrived. Don't wait another minute.
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blessing the boats Lucille Clifton (at St. Mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that
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Miriam Ha-N’viah lyrics by Rabbi Leila Gal Berner
Dc¨¨iA§ dx¨n§ f¦ e§ fŸr d`i ¨ a¦ P§ d© m¨ix§n¦ mlFr ¨ zx©n§ f¦ liC§¦ bd© l§ EpY¨ `¦ cŸwx§Y¦ m©ix§n¦ :mlFr ¨ dÎz ¨ `¤ oT¥ z© l§ EpY¨ `¦ cŸwx§Y¦ m©ix§n¦ Ep`i ¥ a¦ Y§ `id¦ Epin¨ ¥ ia§ dx¨d¥ n§ A¦ :drEW§ ¨ Id© in¥ l`¤ Miriam hanev’iah oz v’zimrah b’yadah Miriam tirkod itanu lehagdil zimrat olam Miriam tirkod itanu letaken et ha’olam Bimherah veyameynu hi tevi’enu el mey hayeshu’a, el mey hayeshu’a Miriam the prophet, strength and song in her hand Miriam dance with us in order to increase the song of the world Miriam dance with us in order to repair the world Soon she will bring us to the waters of redemption
Eliyahu Hanavi
:ic¦ r¨ l§ B¦ d© EdIl¦ `¥ iA¦ W§ Y¦ d© Ed¨Il¦ `¥ `ia¨ ¦ Pd© Ed¨Il¦ `¥ :ce¦C¨ oA¤ gi © W¦ n¨ mr¦ epil¥ `¥ `Ÿai¨ Epin¨ ¥ ia§ dx¨d¥ n§ A¦ Eliyahu hanavi, Eliyahu hatishbi, Eliyahu hagiladi Bimherah veyameynu yavo eleynu im mashi’ah ben David Elijah the prophet, come speedily to us hailing messianic days
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