THE PSALMS FOR WELCOMING SHABBAT
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1 Ek §l L’chu n’rann’nah ladonai, nari’ah l’tsur yish’einu. 2 N’kadd’mah fanav b’todah, bizmirot nari’a lo. 3 Ki eil gadol Adonai, umelech gadol al kol elohim. 4 Asher b’yado mechk’rei arets v’to’afot harim lo. 5 Asher lo ha–yam v’hu asahu, v’yabeshet yadav yatsaru. 6 Bo’u nishtachaveh v’nichra’ah, nivr’chah lifnei Adonai oseinu. 7 Ki hu eloheinu, va’anachnu am mar’ito v’tson yado, 8 ha–yom im b’kolo tishma’u.
opposite of Shabbat, a place without true‘rest’. Reform circles have tended to omit the last section (verses 9–12), preferring to end with the call to listen to God’s voice today (verse 8).
dv Psalm 95 We turn to God as Creator of the physical world and of ourselves as a people. Yet it ends with a shock, the recollection of past rebellion, and a distancing from God that may last until today. The final word of the Psalm defines the outer world as the
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