## Machzor Yom Kippur Ashkenaz, The Morning Prayers, Ma Tovu

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**מַה טֹּֽבוּ**אֹהָלֶֽיךָ יַעֲקֹב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶֽיךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל: וַאֲנִי בְּרֹב חַסְדְּךָ אָבוֹא בֵיתֶֽךָ אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה אֶל הֵיכַל־קָדְשְׁךָ בְּיִרְאָתֶֽךָ: יְהֹוָה אָהַֽבְתִּי מְעוֹן בֵּיתֶֽךָ וּמְקוֹם מִשְׁכַּן כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ: וַאֲנִי אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה וְאֶכְרָֽעָה אֶבְרְכָה לִפְנֵי יְהֹוָה עֹשִׂי: וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּתִי־לְךָ יְהֹוָה עֵת רָצוֹן אֱלֹהִים בְּרָב־חַסְדֶּֽךָ עֲנֵֽנִי בֶּאֱמֶת יִשְׁעֶֽךָ:

**The Metsudah Machzor. Metsudah Publications, New York - Eng (paragraph ed.):**
**How good** are your tents, Yaakov: your dwelling places, Yisrael.⁴ As for me, through Your abundant kindness I will enter Your House; I will prostrate myself toward Your Holy Sanctuary in awe of You.⁵ Adonoy, I love the Dwelling, Your House, and the place where Your glory resides.⁶ I will prostrate myself, and bow, I will kneel⁷ before Adonoy, my Maker. May my prayer to You Adonoy be at a favorable time; God, in the abundance of Your kindness answer me with the truth of Your deliverance.⁸

footnotes:
⁴ Bamidbar 24:5. The Talmud (Maseches Sanhedrin 105a) relates that this verse contains Billam’s prophetic allusion to Jewish houses of study and worship.
⁵ Tehillim 5:8.
⁶ Tehillim 26:8.
⁷ These are three distinct degrees of worship, representing various levels of subjugation before Hashem.
⁸ Tehillim 69:14.