VERSES OF SONG
Shir ha–kavod (selected verses) mi ¦r §p ©` I play sweet psalms and weave my songs because for You my spirit longs. In Your hand's shade my senses yearn Your secret mysteries to learn. Your glory, even as I speak stirs my heart Your love to seek. And so I tell Your glorious fame, with songs of love I praise Your name. I tell Your glory, never shown, describing You though still unknown. Yet through Your prophets that You taught a glimpse of majesty is brought. Your greatness and Your force they told and showed the power that You hold. Each age You call, Your word is true. Seek us, the people seeking You! Yet who can tell God's mighty ways and who can make known all God’s praise.
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Judah he–Chasid ciqgd dcedi mi ¦r §p ©` An’im z’mirot v’shirim e’erog, ki eilecha nafshi ta’arog. Nafshi chimm’dah b’tseil yadecha, lada’at kol raz sodecha. Middei dabb’ri bichvodecha, homeh libbi el dodecha. Al kein adabbeir b’cha nichbadot, v’shimcha achabbeid b’shirei y’didot. Asapp’rah ch’vod’cha v’lo r’iticha, adamm’cha achancha v’lo y’da’ticha. B’yad n’vi’echa b’sod avadecha, dimmita hadar k’vod hodecha. G’dullat’cha ug’vuratecha kinnu l’tokef p’ullatecha. Rosh d’var’cha emet, korei meirosh, dor vador am doreshcha d’rosh. Mi y’malleil g’vurot Adonai, yashmi’a kol t’hillato.
encourage their participation in the service. This was later understood to indicate that such a holy poem should be read by one who had not yet begun to sin. Our version contains the opening verses, one later verse and a concluding addition, Ps 106:2. The full version contains an alphabetic acrostic.
cFa¨M ©d xi ¦W Song of Glory ... This poem of longing for nearness to God, often ascribed to Rabbi Judah he–Chasid of Regensburg (d. 1217), is known as the ‘Hymn of Glory’. Its recital is usually restricted by some to Shabbat and festivals. The custom arose of a child reading it, to
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