MORNING BLESSINGS
PREPARING TO ENCOUNTER GOD
dedi God rules , God has ruled , God shall rule forever and ever. When the rule of God is acknowledged throughout the earth, on that day God shall be One, and known as One. Save us, our Living God, to proclaim Your holy name and be honoured in praising You. Blessed is the Eternal One, the God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say: Amen! Praise God! Let everything that has breath
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praise God. Hallelujah! 1
dedi Adonai melech, Adonai malach, Adonai yimloch l’olam va’ed. V’hayah Adonai l’melech al kol ha–arets, ba–yom ha–hu yih’yeh Adonai echad ush’mo echad. Hoshi’einu Adonai eloheinu, l’hodot l’sheim kodshecha l’hishtabei’ach bit’hillatecha. Baruch Adonai elohei yisra’el min ha–olam v’ad ha–olam, v’amar kol ha–am amen, hal’luyah. Kol ha–n’shamah t’halleil yah, hal’luyah.
The Book of Psalms is made up of five separate sections, individual ‘books’, each one concluding with verses in praise of God, a ‘doxology’. The Psalm verses here, which mark the end of the ‘Morning Blessings’ section, are taken from the end of the fourth and final ‘books’within the Book of Psalms (106:47–48, 150:6) so that continuity is established between the Bible and the liturgy. Verses from the end of the third and second ‘books’within the Book of Psalms are similarly used to mark the end of the Verses of Song section. 1 Zech 14:9, Ps 106:47–48, Ps 150:6.
K¤l«¤n dedi God rules ... The Morning Blessings close with two passages. The sentence ‘God rules … ’ comes from the Sephardi tradition and points to the tension between the need to affirm the presence of God in our lives today and the messianic hope that one day God’s rule will be accepted throughout the world. It helps to mark the transition from our concerns about our individual existence, the theme of the ‘morning blessings’, to our focus on our community and our relationship with God in the next section, the Verses of Song.
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