legd zenil zixgy zltz Daily Morning Service
.m ¨lFr §l i ¦l Ki ¦Y §U ©x ¥` §e .mi ¦n£g ©x §aE c ¤q«¤g §aE h ¨R §W ¦n §aE w ¤c«¤v §A i ¦l Ki ¦Y §U ©x ¥` §e :dedi z¤` §Y©r «©c¨i §e d¨pEn¡`¤A i ¦l Ki ¦Y §U ©x ¥` §e I betroth you to Me forever. I betroth you to Me with integrity and justice, with tenderness and love. I betroth you to Me with faithfulness and you will know the Eternal. The psalmist teaches that ‘it is good to give thanks to the Eternal ... to tell of Your love in the morning and Your faithfulness every night’(Psalm 92:2–3). The daily morning service focuses on the renewal of life that is possible each day, as individuals, as part of a living community, of humanity as a whole and of the natural world. This is an expression of God’s chesed , the ‘love’described by the psalmist. That love is reflected in the opening blessings and prayers which describe both our physical and spiritual reality, restored to life after sleep. The wearing of the tallit and tefillin , during the morning service alone, symbolises our wish to hold on to the spiritual in the midst of the realities and responsibilities of daily life. In the evening prayers, as the day winds down, we reflect on how God’s ‘faithfulness’has sustained us, however challenged we may have been by what the day has brought. Hosea 2: 21–22
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