DOCSLIB.ORG

Walk Thru David Hamelech's T'hilim

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Walk Thru David Hamelech's T'hilim Walk thru The selections for Shir Shel Yom are listed and partially explained in the David HaMelech's Talmud: We learn in a B'raita (TANYA): Rabbi Yehuda says in the T'hilim name of Rabbi Akiva on the first day with Rabbi David Walk what did they (the Leviyim) recite (while the Kohanim were bringing the Ed. note: This is a new column in which Rabbi daily offering)? 'To God is the world Walk will present one perek of T'hilim each week. We have decided to begin with Shir shel Yom and the fullness thereof' (T'hilim 24:1). This is because God (created, Perek 24 and therefore) acquired the world DAY ONE: NEW BEGINNINGS and rules it (Rosh HaShana 35a). So, according to Rabbi Akiva, the When I was a kid, I always knew the reason that chapter 24 is the Psalm day of the week based upon the TV for Sunday is that it declares that shows we watched. Tuesday was my God owns and rules the earth based favorite with Jack Benny, Red on the Creation process, which began Skelton and F Troop. Through most of on Sunday. It's sort of a variation on my professional life, I knew the day of an announcement my adolescent the week because of job responsibil- incarnation would hear from store ities. Now that I'm a retiree, I know keepers when my friends and I would what day it is because of T'FILA, and, enter a store: If you break it, you own specifically, the Shir Shel Yom. This is it! Here we announce: if you create it, the beginning of a series of seven you own it. Remember this was a long articles describing each day's SHIR, time before intellectual property and its connection to its day of the legislation. week. However, I believe that there's much Sunday bats leadoff. Here in Eretz more in our poem to suggest the Yisrael, we really feel like Sunday spirit of YOM RISHON B'SHABBAT. begins the week because it's the back For example: Who can ascend the to work day. B"H that's the way the mountain of God, and who can stand Torah and Jewish custom meant it to upon His holy place (verse 3)? The be. While living in the States, it didn't Malbim explains that inquiry is 'even feel like the week had begun until if you can find someone who can Monday. But here we start our week scale the heights for an instant, but with T'hilim chapter 24. can they remain permanently in that emulate the efforts of Ya'akov Avinu holy place?' to search for God at all times. Remember Ya'akov is the Patriarch of In the literal meaning of the question, the Ladder (SULAM). In our Psalm, this means that achieving permanent the SULAM is identified with the residence within the holy precincts is Temple Mount. Our beloved Patriarch unusual and can only be achieved by taught us about ascending towards the few who are described in verse 4, God. So, on Sunday we are Ya'akov at 'clean hands, pure hearts, hearts that the bottom of the Ladder ready to avoid vanity, and never deceive.' resume the climb, striving for the However, I would submit for your top. There is also this strong desire consideration, that this question is for continuity, emulating Ya'akov. asking about the sanctity achieved Similarly, we want this new week to on Shabbat. It's cool that we can have be a quest for God, not just worldly a day, Shabbat, within the holy needs. As we begin a new week, we precincts, but when the profane days reaffirm our commitment to this (CHOL) of the week arrive, can we endeavor. maintain that holiness while interacting with the world at large? The rest of the Psalm, I believe, is a Not so easy! description of what exactly we desire from this pursuit of God. We seek Then we must consider verse 6. This God and, in return, we anticipate, is hard to translate. The Hebrew says God throwing open the gates which ZEH DOR DORSHAV. Perhaps, we can have separated us from our Divine render that, 'This is the generation King. We emphasize and repeat our that seeks God.' And then we refer request (verses 7 & 9), almost a back to Ya'akov Avinu, 'Those who demand for God to fling open the seek Your face, Ya'akov.' Are we gates, and reveal the glory within. On addressing Ya'akov? Weren't we the literal level the Psalm has two trying to seek God, just a few words parts verses 2-6 are about us coming back? Two popular suggestions are to the Holy Mountain and the Beit 1. we mean the God of Ya'akov, or HaMikdash, the final verses are about God also arriving at the holy site to 2. we mean to seek God as Ya'akov rendezvous with us. did. Either could work. The image of the gates opening in I would like to strongly propose anticipation of the arrival God the option 2. We want our generation to King is also appropriate to Sunday. On Motza'ei Shabbat with Havdala, there is a sense of a curtain coming down on the Sabbat joy, and now on Sunday morning we chant about a new beginning with the gates flung open wide to receive the King who we pray will arrive this week. This is our Sunday prayer and need. As we begin a new week of work and worldly involvements, we leave Shabbat in the rear-view mirror, and continue to anticipate a future filled with all the promises of a world, created and possessed by God, which will soon also be filled with God's revealed presence. Walk thru separated His works and reigned over them (31a). This requires a little David HaMelech's explanation. On YOM SHEINI, God said, "Let there be an expanse T'hilim (RAKI'A) in the midst of the water, with Rabbi David Walk that it may separate water from water." God made the expanse, and it Ed. note: This is a new column in which Rabbi separated the water which was below Walk will present one perek of T'hilim each week. We have decided to begin with Shir shel Yom the expanse from the water which was above the expanse. And it was so Perek 48 (B'reishit 1:6-7). DAY TWO: UNCERTAINTY Even this doesn't totally clear up the mater, because T'hilim 48 may Monday, Monday, can't trust that reference oceans (verse 5), but it day. Having grown up with the really is all about Yerushalayim. Mamas and the Papas singing about Actually, on further consideration their misgivings about Monday this makes a lot of sense because just morning, I have a healthy skepticism as God separated the 'waters below' about Mondays in general. But this from the 'waters above', so God feeling about its vagaries comes from separated Yerushalayim from the the Diaspora where the work-week rest of the inhabitable universe, and begins on day 2, rather than day one set the Divine Throne there (Rashi). of the week. Bearing that in mind, we Yerushalayim is also the interface Jews also have misgivings about point between this realm (OLAM Mondays because YOM SHEINI is only HAZEH) and the Divine precincts. day of Creation Week, when God Therefore, the SHIR SHEL YOM for doesn't say, 'And it was good.' So, we YOM SHENI discusses YERUSHALA- begin to explore the SHIR SHEL YOM YIM, which reminds us of the divide for day 2 with a little trepidation. between the physical and spiritual. Let's begin with the famous Talmudic This idea of separation is fully statement in Rosh Hashana explain- explored in chapter 48. The Psalm's ing the choice of the daily Psalms: On description of Yerushalayim empha- Monday, they (the Leviyim) would sizes its separateness. The text sing "Great is the Lord, and highly to begins by describing the impregnable be praised in the city of our God, our nobility of Yerushalayim: Lovely in its holy mountain (Psalm 48)", as He elevation, distant extremity (verse 3), In Jerusalem, one cannot escape famed as a fortress (verse 4), Kings God's presence. Jerusalem is an saw it and were dumbfounded, antidote for feelings of alienation and panicked, and dismayed (verse 5). abandonment... Magically, mysteri- Take note of the description towards ously God feels close to us when we the end: Walk about Tziyon, go all are in His Holy City... the closeness to around her; count her towers. Take God that we feel there dispels the note of her ramparts, view her dark clouds of sadness and despair bastions, to recount to the last (Koren Psalms, p. 238). God's great- generation (verses 13-14). est kindness (CHESED) is to bridge the gaps in our existence. Please, note the different tone from the earlier description (verses 3-5), Rav Kook and his students saw in this and the latter account (13-14). At the verse an allusion to prayer. Prayer is beginning the Singer describes the an act of imagination (DIMYON). Rav impossibility of conquering Yeru- Ya'akov Moshe Charlop, among the shalayim, its inviolability. We'll ignore closest students of Rav Kook, wrote the irony that Yerushalayim has been to his son in America that through conquered dozens of times. However, the DIMYON referred to in our verse, towards the end of the Psalm the one can extend the atmosphere of emphasis is on the boundaries.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Psalm 89-93: Christ Our New King June 6, 2021 Message: Take a Few
    Psalm 89-93: Christ Our New King June 6, 2021 Message: Take a few moments to review the message notes from Sunday. What was your main takeaway from this message? Digging Deeper: Small Group Discussion 1.) What stood out to you? 2.) (Psalm 89) From the people’s perspective… their reality did not align with all of God’s promises. What happens when your reality fails to align with what you know to be true about God? 3.) (Psalm 90) In verse 12, what do you think it means when Moses says, “Teach us to number our days so that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”? 4.) (Psalm 91) God is our protection in verses 9 and 10, is God’s protection available to everyone? 5.) (Psalm 91:10) Does God’s protection mean Christians are immune from all harm? 6.) Satan quotes verse 11 to Jesus in the wilderness (Luke 4:9-12). The devil would like us to think that God’s promises have failed especially if He lets us suffer. Where does verse 15 say God will be? 7.) When the Israelites were tested in the wilderness they fell for Satan’s temptations. When Jesus was tested by Satan in the wilderness, He resisted temptation. What type of guidance does he model for us? 8.) (Psalm 92) This chapter is titled “A Song for the Sabbath Day.” It was written to be sung in community on the sabbath day. What do verses 1-4 teach us about praising God? 9.) (Psalm 93) This chapter reminds us the Lord reigns over all.
    [Show full text]
  • Malkhuyot Sources Uhrbach.Pdf
    אמר הקדוש ברוך הוא ... ואמרו לפני בראש השנה מלכיות זכרונות ושופרות מלכיות כדי שתמליכוני עליכם זכרונות כדי שיעלה זכרוניכם לפני לטובה ובמה בשופר כת' רבי' סעדיה מה שצונו הבורא יתברך לתקוע בשופר בראש השנה יש בזה עשרה ענינים. הענין הראשון מפני שהיום היתה תחלת הבריאה שבו ברא הקב"ה את העולם ומלך עליו וכן עושים המלכים בתחלת מלכותם שתוקעים לפניהם בחצוצרות ובקרנות להודיע ולהשמיע בכל מקום התחלת מלכותם וכן אנו ממליכין עלינו את הבורא ליום זה וכך אמר דוד בחצוצרות וקול שופר הריעו לפני המלך ה'. והטעם שתקנו לומר מראש השנה ועד יום הכפורים המלך במקום האל לפי שמראה מלכותו על בני העולם ששופט אותם בימים אלו אֵ ין מַ זְכִּירִ ין זִכְרוֹנוֹת מַ לְכֻיּוֹת וְ שׁוֹפָ רוֹת שֶׁ ל פֻּרְ עָ נוּת. זִכְ רוֹנוֹת כְּגוֹן )תהילים עח לט( "וַיִּזְכֹּר כִּי בָשָׂ ר הֵמָּ ה" וְ כוּ'. מַ לְכֻיּוֹת כְּגוֹן )יחזקאל כ לג( ה"בְּחֵמָ שְׁ פוּכָה אֶמְ לוְֹך ֲעֵליֶכם". שֹׁוָפרֹות ְכּגֹון )הושע ה ח( "ִתְּקעוּ שֹׁוָפר בַּגִּבְעָ ה" וְ כוּ'. ְוֹלא ִזְכרֹוָן יִחידֲאִפלּוּ ְלטֹוָבה ְכּגֹון )תהילים קו ד( "ָזְכֵרִני ה' ִבְּרצֹון ַעֶמָּך". )נחמיה ה יט( )נחמיה יג לא( "ָזְכָרה ִלּיֱ אֹלַהי ְלטֹוָבה". וִּפְקדֹונֹותֵאיָנן ְכִּזְכרֹונֹות. ְכּגֹון )שמות ג טז( "ָפֹּקד ָפַּקְדִתּיֶאְתֶכם". ְוֵישׁ לֹו ְלַהְזִכּיר ֻפְּרָענוֶּת שׁלֻאמֹּוַת עכּוּ''ם ְכּגֹון )תהילים צט א( "ה' מָ לְָך יִ ְרְגּזַוּ עִמּים". )תהילים קלז ז( "ְזֹכר ה' ִלְבֵניֱ אדֹוםֶאת יֹוְם ירָוּשָׁלִם".)גמרא ראש השנה לב ב( " ַוה'ֱ אֹלִהים ַבּשֹּׁוָפרִ יְתָקע ְוָהַלְך ְבַּסֲערֹות ֵתּיָמן". )דברים ו ד( ְ"שַׁמִעיְשָׂרֵאל ה'ֱ אֹלֵהינוּ ה' ֶאָחד". )דברי ם ד לה( ַ"אָתּה ָהְרֵאָת ָלַדַעת" ְוכ וּ'. )דברים ד לט( "ְוָיַדְעָתּ ַהיֹּום ַוֲהֵשֹׁבָת ֶאל ְלָבֶבָך" ְוכוּ'. ָכּל ָפּסוּקֵ מֵאלּוַּמְלכוּ ת הִוּא עְנָינֹו ַאַף על ִפּיֶשֵׁאין בֹּו ֵזֶכרַמְלכוּת ַוֲהֵרי הוּא ְכּמֹו )שמות טו יח( "ה'ִ יְמלֹוְך ְלעֹוָלם ָוֶעד", )דברים לג ה( "ַוְיִהי ִבֻישׁרוּןֶ מֶלְך" ְוכוּ ': ותמצא באלו השלשה ובכן ובכן ובכן רמז למלכיות זכרונות ושופרו ת כי הראשון הוא ובכן תן פחדך ה' אלקינו וייראוך כל המעשים ויעשו כלם אגודה אחת כנגד מלכיות כי כל זה ענין הממלכה שממליכין אותו.
    [Show full text]
  • Copy of Copy of Prayers for Pesach Quarantine
    ב"ה At-Home Davening Instructions for Pesach 5780 ChabadChayil.org/PASSOVER Minchah Erev Pesach: 4/8 continued 99 Korbanos 232 Ashrei 101 Ashrei 340 - 350 Musaf Amidah - Begin reciting Morid 103 Amidah Hatol for the summer, Pesach 116 Aleinu / Al Tira insertions 407 Order of the Pesach Offering 353 Read Prayer for Dew omitting two paragraphs beginning with "Baruch" Maariv Day One: 4/8 242 Ein Kelokeinu 161 - 165 Shir Hamaalos (gray box) 244 Aleinu / Al Tira 331 - 337 Yom Tov Amidah 247 Six Remembrances 307 - 311 Complete Hallel 174 Aleinu / Al Tira Minchah Day One: 4/9 250 Korbanos 253 - 255 Ashrei - U'va Le'Tziyon Shacharis Day One: 4/9 331 - 337 Yom Tov Amidah 5 - 9 Morning Blessings 267 Aleinu / Al Tira 12 - 25 Korbanos 181 - 202 Pesukei D'Zimrah 203 Blessings of Shema (gray box) Maariv Day Two: 4/9 205 - 210 Continue Blessings of Shema 161 - 165 Shir Hamaalos (gray box) 331 - 337 Yom Tov Amidah 331 - 337 Yom Tov Amidah 307 - 311 Complete Hallel 307 - 311 Complete Hallel 74 Song of the Day 136 Counting the Omer (Day 1) 496 Torah Reading 174 Aleinu / Al Tira 497 Haftorah *From a pre-existing flame Shacharis Day Two: 4/10 Shacharis Day Three: 4/11 5 - 9 Morning Blessings 5 - 9 Morning Blessings 12 - 25 Korbanos 12 - 25 Korbanos 181 - 202 Pesukei D'Zimrah 181 - 202 Pesukei D'Zimrah 203 Blessings of Shema (gray box) 203 - 210 Blessings of Shema & Shema 205 - 210 Continue Blessings of Shema 211- 217 Shabbos Amidah - add gray box 331 - 337 Yom Tov Amidah pg 214 307 - 311 Complete Hallel 307 - 311 "Half" Hallel - Omit 2 indicated 74 Song of
    [Show full text]
  • On the Proper Use of Niggunim for the Tefillot of the Yamim Noraim
    On the Proper Use of Niggunim for the Tefillot of the Yamim Noraim Cantor Sherwood Goffin Faculty, Belz School of Jewish Music, RIETS, Yeshiva University Cantor, Lincoln Square Synagogue, New York City Song has been the paradigm of Jewish Prayer from time immemorial. The Talmud Brochos 26a, states that “Tefillot kneged tmidim tiknum”, that “prayer was established in place of the sacrifices”. The Mishnah Tamid 7:3 relates that most of the sacrifices, with few exceptions, were accompanied by the music and song of the Leviim.11 It is therefore clear that our custom for the past two millennia was that just as the korbanot of Temple times were conducted with song, tefillah was also conducted with song. This is true in our own day as well. Today this song is expressed with the musical nusach only or, as is the prevalent custom, nusach interspersed with inspiring communally-sung niggunim. It once was true that if you wanted to daven in a shul that sang together, you had to go to your local Young Israel, the movement that first instituted congregational melodies c. 1910-15. Most of the Orthodox congregations of those days – until the late 1960s and mid-70s - eschewed the concept of congregational melodies. In the contemporary synagogue of today, however, the experience of the entire congregation singing an inspiring melody together is standard and expected. Are there guidelines for the proper choice and use of “known” niggunim at various places in the tefillot of the Yamim Noraim? Many are aware that there are specific tefillot that must be sung "...b'niggunim hanehugim......b'niggun yodua um'sukon um'kubal b'chol t'futzos ho'oretz...mimei kedem." – "...with the traditional melodies...the melody that is known, correct and accepted 11 In Arachin 11a there is a dispute as to whether song is m’akeiv a korban, and includes 10 biblical sources for song that is required to accompany the korbanos.
    [Show full text]
  • 9781845502027 Psalms Fotb
    Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................7 Notes ............................................................................................................. 8 Psalm 90: Consumed by God’s Anger ......................................................9 Psalm 91: Healed by God’s Touch ...........................................................13 Psalm 92: Praise the Ltwi ........................................................................17 Psalm 93: The King Returns Victorious .................................................21 Psalm 94: The God Who Avenges ...........................................................23 Psalm 95: A Call to Praise .........................................................................27 Psalm 96: The Ltwi Reigns ......................................................................31 Psalm 97: The Ltwi Alone is King ..........................................................35 Psalm 98: Uninhibited Rejoicing .............................................................39 Psalm 99: The Ltwi Sits Enthroned ........................................................43 Psalm 100: Joy in His Presence ................................................................47 Psalm 101: David’s Godly Resolutions ...................................................49 Psalm 102: The Ltwi Will Rebuild Zion ................................................53 Psalm 103: So Great is His Love. .............................................................57
    [Show full text]
  • The Mishkan at Central Synagogue Parashat Mas’Ei, July 14, 2018 / 2 Av 5778
    The Mishkan at Central Synagogue Parashat Mas’ei, July 14, 2018 / 2 Av 5778 Morning Blessings of Gratitude / Birchot HaShachar Supplementary Prayers and Songs: Gathering / Mah Tovu Waking / Modeh Ani Sanctuary (Text: Exodus 25:8) Music and English Lyrics: R. Scruggs Our Bodies / Asher Yatzar (78) Our Souls / Elohai Neshama Oh, Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary (82) Everyday Miracles / Nisim B’Chol Yom Pure and holy, tried and true; And with thanksgiving Learning Torah I’ll be a living sanctuary for you. Songs of Praise / Pesukei D’Zimrah Psalm 145 / Ashrei Ve'asu li mikdash veshachanti betocham. (96) Psalm 92 / Mizmor Shir l’Yom HaShabbat Va'anachnu nevarech yah me'atah ve'ad (100) Psalm 150 / Hallelujah olam. The Shema and its Blessings (108) Call to Prayer / Bar’chu (Make for me a sanctuary, that I may dwell within you. / And we will praise God now (110) The Wonder of Creation / Yotzeir Or and forever). The Loving Gift of Torah / Ahavah Rabbah (114) Proclaiming God’s Oneness / Shema Mizmor Shir (Text: Psalm 92) (116) V’ahavta Music and English Lyrics: D. Mutlu (122) Song of Our Redemption / Mi Chamocha (122) Our Rock & Redeemer / Tzur Yisrael Mizmor shir l’yom HaShabbat Standing Prayer / Tefillah / Amidah Tov l’hodot l’Adonai Ul’zameir l’shimcha elyon (124) Open our Mouths / Adonai Sefatai Tiftach Mizmor shir l’yom HaShabbat (126) God of Our Ancestors / Avot (128) Life-Giving and Powerful God / G’vurot Good it is to thank You and give praise; Sing a song, to glorify your name. (130) Sanctifying God’s Name / Kedushah Kindness, love, truth and faith; Sanctifying Shabbat / Yis’m’chu or V’Shamru You are by night and day.
    [Show full text]
  • Welcome to Eye Surgeons and Consultants! WE USE the MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY and CUSTOMIZE OUR SERVICE to YOUR EYES!
    Alan Mendelsohn, M.D. Nathan Klein, O.D. 954.894.1500 Welcome to Eye Surgeons and Consultants! WE USE THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND CUSTOMIZE OUR SERVICE TO YOUR EYES! SERVICES For your convenience, we also have a full service optical dispensary Laser Cataract Surgery with the highest quality and huge selection of the latest styles of Laser Vision Correction eyeglasses and sunglasses, including: Glaucoma Laser Surgery Comprehensive Eye Exams Oliver Peoples • Michael Kors • Barton Perreira • Tom Ford • Burberry Macular Degeneration Marc Jacobs • Lily Pulitzer • Mont Blanc • Nike Flexon • Silhouette Diabetic Eye Exams Glaucoma Exams We provide personalized, professional care using Red Eye Evaluations a state-of-the-art computerized in-house laboratory. Dry Eye EXTENDED HOURS: MON: 7:30AM – 8:00PM Contact Lens Exams TUE – FRI: 7:30AM – 4:30PM • SUN: 7:30AM – 11:30AM Scleral Contact Lenses 4651 Sheridan Street, Suite 100, Hollywood, FL 33021 • 954.894.1500 PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE: www.myeyesurgeons.com for sight-saving suggestions! YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE SEPTEMBER 2021 PAGE 3 FACTS I DISCOVERED WHILE LOOKING UP OTHER THINGS Rabbi Edward Davis JULIAN. On July 19, 362 CE, the new emperor, bath and to instruct the women about the rules of immersion. Constantine’s nephew, Julian, was in Antioch, on his way to When asked whether he was not afraid that his passion get invade Persia. He asked a Jewish delegation: “Why are you the better of him, he replied that to him the women looked not sacrificing?” The Jews answered, “We are not allowed. like so many white geese.
    [Show full text]
  • Mahzor - Fourth Edition.Indb 1 18-08-29 11:38 Mahzor
    Mahzor - Fourth Edition.indb 1 18-08-29 11:38 Mahzor. Hadesh. Yameinu RENEW OUR DAYS A Prayer-Cycle for Days of Awe Edited and translated by Rabbi Ron Aigen Mahzor - Fourth Edition.indb 3 18-08-29 11:38 Acknowledgments and copyrights may be found on page x, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page. Copyright © !""# by Ronald Aigen Second Printing, !""# $ird Printing, !""% Fourth Printing, !"&' Original papercuts by Diane Palley copyright © !""#, Diane Palley Page Designer: Associès Libres Formatting: English and Transliteration by Associès Libres, Hebrew by Resolvis Cover Design: Jonathan Kremer Printed in Canada ISBN "-$%$%$!&-'-" For further information, please contact: Congregation Dorshei Emet Kehillah Synagogue #( Cleve Rd #!"" Mason Farm Road Hampstead, Quebec Chapel Hill, CANADA NC !&)#* H'X #A% USA Fax: ()#*) *(%-)**! ($#$) $*!-($#* www.dorshei-emet.org www.kehillahsynagogue.org Mahzor - Fourth Edition.indb 4 18-08-29 11:38 Mahzor - Fourth Edition.indb 6 18-08-29 11:38 ILLUSTRATIONS V’AL ROSHI SHECHINAT EL / AND ABOVE MY HEAD THE PRESENCE OF GOD vi KOL HANSHEMAH T’HALLEL YA / LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE YOU xxii BE-ḤOKHMAH POTE‘AḤ SHE‘ARIM / WITH WISDOM YOU OPEN GATEWAYS 8 ELOHAI NESHAMAH / THE SOUL YOU HAVE GIVEN ME IS PURE 70 HALLELUJAH 94 ZOKHREINU LE-ḤAYYIM / REMEMBER US FOR LIFE 128 ‘AKEDAT YITZḤAK / THE BINDING OF ISAAC 182 MALKHUYOT, ZIKHRONOT, SHOFAROT / POWER, MEMORY, VISION 258 TASHLIKH / CASTING 332 KOL NIDREI / ALL VOWS 374 KI HINNEI KA-ḤOMER / LIKE CLAY IN THE HAND OF THE POTIER 388 AVINU MALKEINU
    [Show full text]
  • The Psalms As Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem Gary A
    4 The Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem Gary A. Rendsburg From as far back as our sources allow, hymns were part of Near Eastern temple ritual, with their performers an essential component of the temple functionaries. 1 These sources include Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian texts 2 from as early as the third millennium BCE. From the second millennium BCE, we gain further examples of hymns from the Hittite realm, even if most (if not all) of the poems are based on Mesopotamian precursors.3 Ugarit, our main source of information on ancient Canaan, has not yielded songs of this sort in 1. For the performers, see Richard Henshaw, Female and Male: The Cu/tic Personnel: The Bible and Rest ~(the Ancient Near East (Allison Park, PA: Pickwick, 1994) esp. ch. 2, "Singers, Musicians, and Dancers," 84-134. Note, however, that this volume does not treat the Egyptian cultic personnel. 2. As the reader can imagine, the literature is ~xtensive, and hence I offer here but a sampling of bibliographic items. For Sumerian hymns, which include compositions directed both to specific deities and to the temples themselves, see Thorkild Jacobsen, The Harps that Once ... : Sumerian Poetry in Translation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), esp. 99-142, 375--444. Notwithstanding the much larger corpus of Akkadian literarure, hymn~ are less well represented; see the discussion in Alan Lenzi, ed., Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction, Ancient Near East Monographs (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011), 56-60, with the most important texts included in said volume. For Egyptian hymns, see Jan A%mann, Agyptische Hymnen und Gebete, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999); Andre Barucq and Frarn;:ois Daumas, Hymnes et prieres de /'Egypte ancienne, Litteratures anciennes du Proche-Orient (Paris: Cerf, 1980); and John L.
    [Show full text]
  • This Week at Nitzavim-Vayeilech
    .4 September 12, 2020 23rd of Elul 5780 This Week At Nitzavim-Vayeilech SHABBAT MINYANIM IN SHUL @ YICC HALAKHIC CORNER You MUST be pre-registered and on our security list Q: Is one permitted to recite the prayer of Machnisei Rachamim at the end of the Selichot service in which we to be allowed entry into our Minyanim. beseech the angels to help present our prayers to G-d? ALL Minyanim meet in our Shul’s Backyard A: The 5th of the Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith states that Friday Night: we believe that one must only pray to Hashem and to no other being. Precisely because of this belief, the Maharal Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat ................. 6:55 pm (Netiv Olam) writes that the paragraph of Machnisei Rachami, one of the concluding prayers of the Selichot Shabbat Day: service this Motzei Shabbat, should be omitted since it is Shacharit .................................. 7:00 & 8:30 am a prayer to angels. Similarly, the Chatam Sofer (Sh”T Shabbat Afternoon: O”C 166) expresses his reservations about this prayer. Mincha .................................................. 6:40 pm He adds that he would regularly elongate his Tachanun at Shiur by Rabbi Proops the conclusion of Selichot so that by the time he was Maariv................................................... 7:38 pm ready to recite Machnisei Rachamim the Chazan had already concluded the service thereby circumventing the Shabbat ends & Havdalah .................... 7:48 pm issue altogether. Interestingly, Rabbi Asher Weiss (Minchas Asher - Moadim) opines that reciting Machnisei SHABBAT AT HOME Rachamim is completely permitted. He reasons that when the Rambam prohibited praying to other beings, the Shabbat Candle Lighting ..................
    [Show full text]
  • Sitting with the Psalms
    sitting with the Psalms “Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters – a pathway no one knew was there! You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep…” (Psalm 77:19,20a) All Saints’ church, hoole Homegroup studies January – March 2021 Sit with these psalms in the presence of God. Wait for the LORD. Be strong. Take heart. Wait for the LORD. Then, having been made strong by Him, Rise up and follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Sources/Copyright Scripture marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation Scripture marked NIV are from Holy Bible, New International Version (Anglicised Edition) Photographs – pixabay free images ( p6,15), Anita Benson. 1 Introduction As we begin a new year and continue in pathways that seem uncharted (hence the cover photo), we can move forward with confidence because the Lord God Almighty is our Saviour. This booklet contains 6 psalms and a Contemplative Reflection. These are for you to use with your homegroup, or for personal study. Dates Psalm Page First half of January nd th th th - HG meets in 2 week (12 /13 /14 ) Psalm 27 4 Second half of January th th th th - HG meets in 4 week (26 /27 / 28 ) Psalm 29 7 First half of February nd th th th - HG meets in 2 week (9 /10 /11 ) Psalm 32 9 Second half of February th rd th th - HG meets in 4 week (23 /24 /25 ) Psalm 77 11 First half of March nd th th th - HG meets in 2 week ( 9 /10 / 11 ) Psalm 92 14 Second half of March th - HG meets in 4 week ( 23rd /24th/ 25th ) Psalm 144 16 How to use this booklet Step 1 : Read, and re-read the psalm.
    [Show full text]
  • KMS Sefer Minhagim
    KMS Sefer Minhagim Kemp Mill Synagogue Silver Spring, Maryland Version 1.60 February 2017 KMS Sefer Minhagim Version 1.60 Table of Contents 1. NOSACH ........................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 RITE FOR SERVICES ............................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 RITE FOR SELICHOT ............................................................................................................................................ 1 1.3 NOSACH FOR KADDISH ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.4 PRONUNCIATION ............................................................................................................................................... 1 1.5 LUACH ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 2. WHO MAY SERVE AS SH’LIACH TZIBUR .......................................................................................................... 2 2.1 SH’LIACH TZIBUR MUST BE APPOINTED .................................................................................................................. 2 2.2 QUALIFICATIONS TO SERVE AS SH’LIACH TZIBUR .....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]