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Crl£d For in Your presence are not the powerful as nothing, the famous as if they had never existed, the learned as if without knowledge, and the intelligent as if without insight? To You most of our actions are pointless and our daily life is shallow. Even our superiority over the animals is nothing. 1 For everything is trivial except the pure soul which must one day give its account and reckoning before the judgment seat of Your glory. l ¨a£` Yet we are Your people, the children of Your covenant, the children of Abraham whom You loved, giving him Your promise on Mount Moriah; the descendants of Isaac, bound as an offering on the altar; the congregation of Jacob ‘Your son, Your special son’; out of Your love for him and Your delight in him, You changed his name to Israel and Yeshurun. 2 Blessed are You God, You make Your name holy before all.
Crl£d Halo ha–gibborim k’ayin l’fanecha, v’anshei ha–sheim k’lo hayu, vachachamim kivli madda, un’vonim kivli haskeil, ki rov ma’aseinu tohu, vimei chayyeinu hevel l’fanecha, umotar ha–adam min ha–b’heimah ayin, ki ha–kol havel l’vad ha–n’shamah ha–t’horah, shehi atidah littein din v’cheshbon lifnei chissei ch’vodecha. l ¨a£` Aval anachnu amm’cha, b’nei v’ritecha, b’nei avraham ohav’cha, shenishba’ta lo b’har ha–moriyah, zera yitschak y’chido, shene’ekad al gabei ha–mizbei’ach, adat Ya’akov bincha b’chorecha, shemei’ahavat’cha she’ahavta oto, umissimchat’cha shesamachta bo, karata et sh’mo yisra’el vishurun. Baruch attah Adonai m’kaddesh et shim’cha ba–rabbim.
significance through our membership of the Jewish people with its special destiny. 1 Ecc 3:19. 2 Yeshurun is a poetic name for Israel, ‘the upright one’ (Deut 32:15, 33:5,26, Isa 44:2).
L §O ©r Ep §g«©p£` l¨a£` Yet we are Your people ... This paragraph, which is found in both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi tradition, counters the negative conclusion of human insignificance by affirming that we are God’s people, and locates our collective
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