The Blessing of the Torah
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Ba-rooch
ah-ta Adonai, Eh-lo-hay-noo
meh-lech ha oh-lahm,
ah-sher ba-char ba-noo me-kol ha-ahmeem,
v’na-tahn la-noo et torah-toe,
ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai, no-tane ha-torah.
Blessed are
You, O Lord our G-d,
King of the Universe,
Who has chosen us from all peoples
and given us His Torah.
Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the Torah. |
Click here to listen to this sung by
Cantor Kenneth B. Cohen of
Temple Sholom, Greenwich, CT.
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D’varim (Deuteronomy)
11:26-16:17
Rishon [1st]:
11:26Behold,
I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
11:27the
blessing, if you shall listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your G-d, which I
command you this day; 11:28and the curse, if
you shall not listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your G-d, but turn
aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods,
which you have not known.
11:29It shall happen, when the LORD your G-d
shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set
the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount `Eval.
11:30Aren't they beyond the Yarden, behind the way of the going down of
the sun, in the land of the Kana`anim who dwell in the `Aravah, over against
Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 11:31For you are to
pass over the Yarden to go in to possess the land which the LORD your G-d
gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
11:32You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I
set before you this day.
12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe
to do in the land which the LORD, the G-d of your fathers, has given you to
possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
12:2You
shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall
dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and
under every green tree: 12:3and you shall break
down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim
with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you
shall destroy their name out of that place.
12:4You shall not do so
to the LORD your G-d. 12:5But to the place
which the LORD your G-d shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
12:6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your
vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of
your flock: 12:7and there you shall eat before the LORD your G-d, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which
the LORD your G-d has blessed you. 12:8You shall not do
after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right
in his own eyes;
12:9for you haven't yet come to the
rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your G-d gives you.
12:10But when you go over the Yarden, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your G-d causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your
enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; Sheni [2nd]: 12:11then it shall
happen that to the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of
your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.
12:12You shall rejoice before the LORD your G-d, you, and your sons, and
your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the
Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance
with you.
12:13Take heed to yourself that you don't
offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
12:14but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes,
there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that
I command you.
12:15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat
flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to
the blessing of the LORD your G-d which he has given you: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
12:16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the
earth as water.
12:17You may not eat within your gates the
tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn
of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your
freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
12:18but you shall eat them before the LORD your G-d in the place which
the LORD your G-d shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your G-d in all that you put
your hand to.
12:19Take heed to yourself that you don't
forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
12:20When the LORD your G-d shall enlarge
your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh,
because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the
desire of your soul. 12:21If the place which
the LORD your G-d shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you,
then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given
you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all
the desire of your soul. 12:22Even as the
gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it alike. 12:23Only be sure that
you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat
the life with the flesh. 12:24You shall not eat
it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
12:25You
shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
12:26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall
take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:
12:27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
on the altar of the LORD your G-d; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be
poured out on the altar of the LORD your G-d; and you shall eat the flesh.
12:28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may
go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that
which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your G-d.
Shlishi [3rd]:
12:29When
the LORD your G-d shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in
to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
12:30take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them,
after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire
after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so
will I do likewise.
12:31You shall not do so to the LORD
your G-d: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done
to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the
fire to their gods.
12:32Whatever thing I command you, that
shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
13:2and
the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let
us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your G-d proves you, to know whether you
love the LORD your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul.
13:4You shall walk after the LORD your G-d, and fear him, and keep his
mitzvot, and obey
his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.
13:5That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death,
because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD your G-d, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to
draw you aside out of the way which the LORD your G-d commanded you to walk
in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
13:6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own
soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you
have not known, you, nor your fathers;
13:7of
the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off
from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your
eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
13:9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to
draw you away from the LORD your G-d, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13:11All Yisra'el shall
hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the
midst of you.
13:12If you shall hear tell concerning one
of your cities, which the LORD your G-d gives you to dwell there, saying,
13:13Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have
drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other
gods, which you have not known; 13:14then shall you
inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth,
and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
13:15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle
of it, with the edge of the sword. 13:16You shall gather
all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with
fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to the LORD your G-d: and
it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
13:17There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that
the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and
have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
13:18when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your G-d, to keep
all his mitzvot
which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the
LORD your G-d.
R'vi'i [4th]:
14:1You are the children of the LORD your G-d: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2For you are a holy people to the LORD your G-d, and the LORD has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are
on the face of the earth.
14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing.
14:4These
are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and
the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
14:6Every
animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews
the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
14:7Nevertheless
these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the
hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the
cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is
unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you
shall not touch.
14:9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins
and scales may you eat; 14:10and whatever
doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
14:11Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:12But
these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the
peres, and the
ozniah,
14:13and the red kite, and the ayah, and the daah after its kind,
14:14and every orev
after its kind,
14:15and the bas haya`anah, and the
takhmos, and the
sea-mew, and the netz
after its kind,
14:16the kos, and the yanshuf, and the tanshemet,
14:17and
the ka`at, and the
rakham, and the
shalakh,
14:18and the
khasidah, and the
anafah after its kind, and the dukifat, and the atalef.
14:19All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be
eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds you may eat.
14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies
of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within
your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you
are a holy people to the LORD your G-d.
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Chamishi [5th]:
14:22You
shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth
from the field year by year. 14:23You shall eat
before the LORD your G-d, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your
oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to
fear the LORD your G-d always. 14:24If the way be too
long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too
far from you, which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to set his name there,
when the LORD your G-d shall bless you;
14:25then
shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall
go to the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose:
14:26and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for
oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your
soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your G-d, and you
shall rejoice, you and your household.
14:27The Levite who is within your gates,
you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe
of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you,
and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who
are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
LORD your G-d may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Shishi [6th]:
15:1At
the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
15:2This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.
15:3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your
brother your hand shall release. 15:4However there shall
be no poor with you; (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which
the LORD your G-d gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
15:5if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your G-d, to
observe to do all this mitzvah which I command you this
day. 15:6For the LORD your G-d will bless you, as he promised you: and you
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule
over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
15:7If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any
of your gates in your land which the LORD your G-d gives you, you shall not
harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend
him sufficient for his need in that which he wants.
15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The
seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against
your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against
you, and it be sin to you. 15:10You shall surely
give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because
that for this thing the LORD your G-d will bless you in all your work, and
in all that you put your hand to. 15:11For the poor will
never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall
surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in
your land.
15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a
Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh
year you shall let him go free from you.
15:13When
you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
15:14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your
threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as the LORD your G-d has blessed
you, you shall give to him. 15:15You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your G-d
redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
15:16It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he
loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
15:17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the
door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you
shall do likewise.
15:18It shall not seem hard to you,
when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a
hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your G-d will bless you
in all that you do.
Shvi'i
[7th]:
15:19All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your
flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your G-d: you shall do no work with the
firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
15:20You shall eat it before the LORD your G-d year by year in the place
which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
15:21If it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill
blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your G-d.
15:22You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
15:23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
16:1Observe the month
of Aviv, and keep the Pesach to the LORD your G-d; for in the month of Aviv
the LORD your G-d brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
16:2You shall sacrifice the Pesach to the LORD your G-d, of the flock
and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there.
16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it;
seven days shall you eat
matzah therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out
of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
16:4There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven
days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning.
16:5You
may not sacrifice the Pesach within any of your gates, which the LORD your
G-d gives you;
16:6but at the place which the LORD your G-d
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the
Pesach at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came
forth out of Egypt.
16:7You shall roast and eat it in the
place which the LORD your G-d shall choose: and you shall turn in the
morning, and go to your tents. 16:8Six days you shall
eat matzah; and on
the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your G-d; you shall
do no work therein.
16:9Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put
the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
16:10You shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your G-d with a
tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according
as the LORD your G-d blesses you: 16:11and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your G-d, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the
midst of you, in the place which the LORD your G-d shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there. 16:12You shall remember
that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these
statutes.
Maftir [Concluding]: 16:13You shall keep the
feast of booths seven days, after that you have gathered in from your
threshing floor and from your winepress:
16:14and
you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and
your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
16:15Seven days shall you keep a feast to the LORD your G-d in the place
which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD your G-d will bless you in all
your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be
altogether joyful.
16:16Three times in a year shall all
your males appear before the LORD your G-d in the place which he shall
choose: in the feast of
matzah, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they
shall not appear before the LORD empty:
16:17every
man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your G-d
which he has given you.
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The Blessing of the Haftarah
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Ba-rooch, ah-ta Adonai,
eh-lo-hay-noo,
meh-lech ha-ohlahm,
ah-sher ba-char been-vee-eem toe-veem,
v’ra-tza b’deevray-hem,
ha-neh-eh-ma-reem, beh-eh-meht.Ba-rooch ah-ta, Adonai,
ha-bo-char ba-torah,
oo-v’Mo-sheh ahv-doe, oo-v'yeesra-ale ah-mo,
oo-veen-vee-aye ha-eh-met, va-tzeh-dek.
Blessed are you, O Lord our G-d,
King of the Universe,
Who selected good prophets,
and was pleased with their words
which were spoken truthfully.
Blessed are You, O Lord,
Who chooses the Torah,
Your servant Moses, Your people Israel,
and prophets of truth and righteousness. |
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an unknown male soloist from
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Yesha'yahu (Isaiah) 54:11-55:5
54:11You afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful
colors,
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
54:12I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
and your gates of emeralds,
and all your border of precious stones.
54:13All your children shall be taught of the LORD;
and great shall be the shalom of your
children.
54:14In righteousness shall you be established:
you shall be far from oppression,
for you shall not be afraid; and from
terror,
for it shall not come near you.
54:15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me:
whoever shall gather together against you
shall fall because of you.
54:16Behold, I have created the smith
who blows the fire of coals,
and brings forth a weapon for his work;
and I have created the waster to destroy.
54:17No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against
you in judgment
you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the
LORD, and their righteousness which is of
me,
says the LORD.
55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts,
come you to the waters,
and he who has no money;
come you, buy, and eat;
yes, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread?
and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy?
listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is
good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
55:3Turn your ear, and come to me;
hear, and your soul shall live:
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.
55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander to the peoples.
55:5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don't know;
and a nation that didn't know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your G-d,
and for the Holy One of Yisra'el;
for he has glorified you.
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The Blessing of the B'rit Chadasha
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Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai,
Eh-lo-hay-noo
meh-lech ha-ohlahm,
ah-shehr na-tahn la-noo ma-she-ahch Yeshua,
v’ha-deebrote shell Ha-breet Ha-cha-da-sha,
ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai,
notain Ha-breet Ha-cha-da-shah.
Blessed are You, O Lord our G-d,
King of the Universe,
Who has given us Messiah Yeshua
and the commandments of the New Covenant.
Blessed are You, O Lord,
Giver of the New Covenant. |
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1 Corinthians 5:9-13
5:9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
5:10yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or
with the covetous and extortionist, or with idolaters; for then you would
have to leave the world. 5:11But as it is, I
wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a
sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard,
or an extortionist. Don't even eat with such a person.
5:12For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside?
Don't you judge those who are within?
5:13But
those who are outside, G-d judges. "Put away the wicked man from among
yourselves."
1 Yochanan 4:1-6
4:1Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether
they are of G-d, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
4:2By this you know the Spirit of G-d: every spirit who confesses that
Yeshua the Messiah has come in the flesh is of G-d,
4:3and
every spirit who doesn't confess that Yeshua the Messiah has come in the
flesh is not of G-d, and this is the spirit of the anti-messiah, of whom you
have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
4:4You are of G-d, little children, and have overcome them; because
greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
4:5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the
world hears them.
4:6We are of G-d. He who knows G-d
listens to us. He who is not of G-d doesn't listen to us. By this we know
the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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The Blessing After Torah
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Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai,
eh-lo-hay-noo
meh-lech ha-ohlahm,
ah-sher na-tahn la-noo toe-raht eh-met,
v’cha-yaye oh-lahm na-ta b’toe-chay-noo.
Ba-rooch ah-ta Adonai, no-tain ha-torah.
Blessed are you, O Lord our G-d,
King of the Universe,
Who has given us a Torah of truth,
and has planted eternal life in our midst.
Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the Torah. |
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Cantor Kenneth B. Cohen of
Temple Sholom, Greenwich, CT |
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