THE PSALMS FOR WELCOMING SHABBAT
1 Exi «¦W Shiru ladonai shir chadash, ki nifla’ot asah, hoshi’ah lo y’mino, uz’ro’a kodsho. 2 Hodi’a Adonai y’shu’ato, l’einei ha–goyim gillah tsidkato. 3 Zachar chasdo ve’emunato l’veit yisra’el ra’u chol afsei arets eit y’shu’at eloheinu.
4 Hari’u ladonai kol ha–arets, pitschu v’rann’nu v’zameiru. 5 Zamm’ru ladonai b’chinnor, b’chinnor v’kol zimrah. 6 Bachatsots’rot v’kol shofar, hari’u lifnei ha–melech Adonai.
7 Yir’am ha–yam um’lo’o, teiveil v’yosh’vei vah. 8 N’harot yimcha’u chaf, yachad harim y’ranneinu. 9 Lifnei Adonai ki va lishpot ha–arets, yishpot teiveil b’tsedek, v’ammim b’meisharim
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Psalm 99 1 dedi The Eternal rules, let the nations tremble! God is enthroned in judgment on the cherubim , let the earth shake! 2 The Eternal is great in Zion, high above all peoples. 3 They shall praise Your name, great and awesome. ‘Holy is God!’
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1 dedi Adonai malach, yirg’zu ammim, yosheiv k’ruvim tanut ha–arets. 2 Adonai b’tsiyyon gadol, v’ram hu al kol ha–ammim. 3 Yodu shimcha, gadol v’nora, kadosh hu.
in Psalm 95 is now modified. God punishes wrongdoing, but in just measure, and the door remains open for our return. The God who is ‘holy’, ‘other’, ‘separate’, all the meanings of kadosh , is not remote, but there to be met in the prayers that we bring. The fifth day carries with it our anticipation of the Shabbat that lies ahead and a reminder to begin the preparation.
hv Psalm 99 God is enthroned, but not as a distant figure ruling from afar. God is one who responds to those who call, like Moses, Aaron and Samuel in their generations. God, says the psalmist, works with us and through us, but also through a system of guidance and law to support us in our life together. The distance from God threatened
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