D’varim 26:1-29:8
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. |
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Cantor Kenneth B. Cohen of
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Rishon [1st]:
29:10You
stand this day all of you before the LORD your G-d; your heads, your tribes,
your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el,
29:11your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the
midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws
your water;
29:12that you may enter into the covenant of
the LORD your G-d, and into his oath, which the LORD your G-d makes with you
this day; 29:13that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and
that he may be to you a G-d, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your
fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov.
29:14Neither with you
only do I make this covenant and this oath,
29:15but
with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our G-d, and also
with him who is not here with us this day
29:16(for
you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
midst of the nations through which you passed;
29:17and
you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which were among them); 29:18lest there should
be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this
day from the LORD our G-d, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest
there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the
stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
29:20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written
in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from
under the sky.
29:21The LORD will set him apart to evil out
of all the tribes of Yisra'el, according to all the curses of the covenant
that is written in this book of the law.
29:22The generation to
come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall
come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick;
29:23and that the whole land of it is sulfur,
and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor
any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and
Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
29:24even all the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this
land? what means the heat of this great anger?
29:25Then
men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the G-d of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt,
29:26and went and served other gods, and
worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to
them: 29:27therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
29:28and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
29:29The secret things
belong to the LORD our G-d; but the things that are revealed belong to us
and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Sheni [2nd]: 30:1It shall happen,
when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I
have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations,
where the LORD your G-d has driven you,
30:2and
shall return to the LORD your G-d, and shall obey his voice according to all
that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul;
30:3that then the LORD your G-d will
turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather
you from all the peoples, where the LORD your G-d has scattered you.
30:4If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the
heavens, from there will the LORD your G-d gather you, and from there will
he bring you back:
30:5and the LORD your G-d will bring
you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it;
and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
30:6The LORD your G-d will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your
seed, to love the LORD your G-d with all your heart, and with all your soul,
that you may live.
Shlishi [3rd]:
30:7The
LORD your G-d will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who
hate you, who persecuted you. 30:8You shall return
and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his mitzvot
which I command you this day. 30:9The LORD your G-d
will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your
body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for
good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over
your fathers.
30:10If you shall obey
the voice of the LORD your G-d, to keep his mitzvot and
his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the
LORD your G-d with all your heart, and with all your soul.
30:11For this mitzvah which I command you this day,
it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
30:12It
is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and
bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
30:13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go
over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it? 30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart,
that you may do it.
R'vi'i [4th]: 30:15Behold, I have set
before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
30:16in that I command you this day to love the LORD your G-d, to walk
in his ways, and to keep his mitzvot and his statutes and
his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your G-d
may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
30:17But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
30:18I
denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not
prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in to
possess it.
30:19I call heaven and
earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and
death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live,
you and your seed;
30:20to love the LORD your G-d, to obey
his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your
days; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to give them.
31:1Moshe went and
spoke these words to all Yisra'el. 31:2He said to them, I
am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in:
and the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Yarden.
31:3The LORD your G-d, he will go over before you; he will destroy
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and
Yehoshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.
31:4The LORD will do to them as he did to Sichon and to `Og, the kings
of the Amori, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
31:5The
LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to
all the mitzvah which I have commanded you.
31:6Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of
them: for the LORD your G-d, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail
you, nor forsake you.
Chamishi [5th]:
31:7Moshe
called to Yehoshua, and said to him in the sight of all Yisra'el, Be strong
and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which
the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them
to inherit it.
31:8The LORD, he it is who does go before
you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't
be afraid, neither be dismayed.
31:9Moshe wrote this
law, and delivered it to the kohanim the sons of Levi,
who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of
Yisra'el.
31:10Moshe commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven
years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
31:11when all Yisra'el is come to appear before the LORD your G-d in the
place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Yisra'el in
their hearing.
31:12Assemble the people, the men and the
women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that
they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your G-d, and
observe to do all the words of this law;
31:13and
that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the
LORD your G-d, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Yarden
to possess it.
Shishi [6th]:
31:14The
LORD said to Moshe, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call
Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him
a charge. Moshe and Yehoshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of
meeting. 31:15The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar
of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
31:16The
LORD said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this
people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the
land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my
covenant which I have made with them.
31:17Then
my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them,
and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many
evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,
Haven't these evils come on us because our G-d is not among us?
31:18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they
shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
31:19Now therefore
write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Yisra'el: put
it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the
children of Yisra'el.
Shvi'i [7th]:
31:20For
when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers,
flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve
them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
31:21It
shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song
shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of
the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this
day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
31:22So Moshe wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children
of Yisra'el.
31:23He gave Yehoshua
the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you
shall bring the children of Yisra'el into the land which I swore to them:
and I will be with you.
31:24It happened, when
Moshe had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they
were finished, 31:25that Moshe
commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
31:26Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your G-d, that it may be there for a witness against
you. 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am
yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and
how much more after my death?
Maftir [concluding]:
31:28Assemble
to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak
these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against
them. 31:29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen
to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
31:30Moshe spoke in the
ears of all the assembly of Yisra'el the words of this song, until they were
finished.
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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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Yesha‘yahu 61:10-63:9
61:10I will greatly rejoice in the
LORD,
my soul shall be joyful in my G-d;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
61:11For as the earth brings forth its bud,
and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth;
so the Lord G-d will cause righteousness
and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62:1For Tziyon's sake will I not hold
my shalom,
and for Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness go forth as brightness,
and her yeshu`ah as a lamp that burns.
62:2The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
62:3You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your G-d.
62:4You shall no more be termed Forsaken;
neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate:
but you shall be called Cheftzi-Bah, and your land Beulah;
for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you;
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your G-d rejoice
over you.
62:6I have set watchmen on your walls,
Yerushalayim;
they shall never hold their shalom day nor night:
you who call on the LORD, take no rest,
62:7and give him no rest, until he establish,
and until he make Yerushalayim a praise in the earth.
62:8The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength,
Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies;
and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
62:9but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD;
and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
Hoshea (Hosea) 14:2-10
14:1Yisra'el, return to the LORD your G-d;
For you have fallen because of your sin.
14:2Take words with you, and return to the LORD.
Tell him, "Forgive all our sins,
And accept that which is good:
So we offer like bulls our lips.
14:3Ashshur can't save us.
We won't ride on horses;
Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!'
For in you the fatherless finds mercy."
14:4"I will heal their waywardness.
I will love them freely;
For my anger is turned away from him.
14:5I will be like the dew to Yisra'el.
He will blossom like the lily,
And send down his roots like Levanon.
14:6His branches will spread,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree,
And his fragrance like Levanon.
14:7Men will dwell in his shade.
They will revive like the grain,
And blossom like the vine.
Their fragrance will be like the wine of Levanon.
14:8Efrayim, what have I to do any more with idols?
I answer, and will take care of him.
I am like a green fir tree;
From me your fruit is found."
14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of the LORD are right,
And the righteous walk in them;
But the rebellious stumble in them.
Mikhah (Micah) 7:18-20
7:18Who is a G-d like you, who pardons iniquity,
And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn't retain his anger forever,
Because he delights in loving kindness.
7:19He will again have compassion on us.
He will tread our iniquities under foot;
And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
7:20You will give truth to Ya`akov,
and mercy to Avraham,
As you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Yo'el (Joel) 2:15-27
2:15Blow the shofar in Tziyon!
Sanctify a fast.
Call a solemn assembly.
2:16Gather the people.
Sanctify the assembly.
Assemble the elders.
Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts.
Let the bridegroom go forth from his room,
And the bride out of her chamber.
2:17Let the kohanim, the
ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, "Spare your people, LORD,
And don't give your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their G-d?'" 2:18Then the LORD was
jealous for his land,
And had pity on his people. 2:19The LORD answered
his people,
"Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
And you will be satisfied with them;
And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
2:20But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
And will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
Its front into the eastern sea,
And its back into the western sea;
And its stench will come up,
And its bad smell will rise."
Surely he has done great things.
2:21Land, don't be afraid.
Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.
2:22Don't be afraid, you animals of the field;
For the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
For the tree bears its fruit.
The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
2:23"Be glad then, you children of Tziyon,
And rejoice in the LORD, your G-d;
For he gives you the former rain in just measure,
And he causes the rain to come down for you,
The former rain and the latter rain,
As before.
2:24The threshing floors will be full of wheat,
And the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
2:25I will restore to you the years that the swarming
arbeh has eaten,
The great arbeh, the
khagav, and the caterpillar,
My great army, which I sent among you.
2:26You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied,
And will praise the name of the LORD, your G-d,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And my people will never again be disappointed.
2:27You will know that I am in the midst of Yisra'el,
And that I am the LORD, your G-d, and there is no one else;
And my people will never again be disappointed.
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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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Romans 9:30-10:13
9:30What shall we say then? That the Goyim, who didn't follow after
righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of
faith; 9:31but Yisra'el, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive
at the law of righteousness. 9:32Why? Because they
didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled
over the stumbling stone; 9:33even as it is
written,
"Behold, I lay in Tziyon a stumbling stone and a rock of
offense;
And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
10:1Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to G-d is for Yisra'el,
that they may be saved. 10:2For I testify about
them that they have a zeal for G-d, but not according to knowledge.
10:3For being ignorant of G-d's righteousness, and seeking to establish
their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness
of G-d. 10:4For Messiah is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to
everyone who believes. 10:5For Moshe writes
about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by
them." 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in
your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Messiah down);
10:7or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Messiah
up from the dead.)"
10:8But what does it say? "The word is
near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith,
which we preach:
10:9that if you will confess with your
mouth the Lord Yeshua, and believe in your heart that G-d raised him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10:10For with the
heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation. 10:11For the Scripture
says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
10:12For there is no distinction between Yehudi and Greek; for the same
Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
10:13For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Messianic Jews 12:14-15
12:14Follow after shalom with all men, and the sanctification without
which no man will see the Lord, 12:15looking carefully
lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of G-d; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
Messianic Jews 13:5-8
13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you
have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any
way forsake you."
13:6So that with good courage we say,
"The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
What can man do to me?"
13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of G-d, and
considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
13:8Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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. |
Click here to listen to this sung by
Cantor Kenneth B. Cohen of
Temple Sholom, Greenwich, CT |
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