Leader: Who is like You, O Teacher of knowledge? / You create the speech of all lips.

Cong: Your thoughts are deep and lofty, / Your years of existence shall never end.

Leader: No one taught You Your wisdom, / and no one granted You Your insight.

Cong: You did not receive Your reign from others, / and did not inherit Your dominion.

Leader: Forever Yours alone / and never shared by others, shall be Your majestic glory.

Cong: And You will never grant to foreign gods / Your glory, nor to idols or strange deities.

Leader: All glory and honor is from You; / Your honor shall never belong to gods. strange

Cong: You shall testify to Your own , / and so shall Your Torah and Your servants. Oneness

Leader: Our God, to Your / You are true itness, and we are Your servants. Oneness w

Cong: No god preceded You, / and in Your creation, no stranger collaborated with You.

Leader: You did not receive counsel and were not instructed / when, in Your own great insight, You invented creatures.

Cong: From within the depths of Your thoughts / and heart, came all Your actions.

Leader: some of Your ways; / we have recognized You through some of Your deeds. Indeed, we are familiar

Cong: For You are the God who created all / alone, yet nothing was diminished from Your greatness.

Leader: You were not pressed to perform Your work; / neither did You require the help of others.

Cong: For You existed before all, / and even then You needed nothing.

Leader: For out of love for Your servants, / You created all for Your glory.

Cong: And no God but You exists; / none is like You and there is none but You.

Leader: No other has been heard of from that time onwards; none has risen or existed nor been seen.

Cong: And after You, there will be no other god – / the God of Israel is both first and last!

Leader: Blessed are You, unique and singular One; / The Lord is One and His name is One.

Cong: For who can perform works, / deeds and mighty miracles such as Yours?

Leader: No creation exists but Yours, / and no work exists but Yours alone.

Cong: You do whatever You desire with regard to all, / for You are exalted above all.

Leader: There is none like You and none other than You, / for there is no God but You.

Cong: You, God, work wonders; / nothing is beyond You.

Leader: Who is like You, awesome in praises? / You alone, God, perform great miracles.

Cong: There are no miracles like Your miracles, / no wonders like Your wonders.

Leader: There is no insight like Your insight, / no greatness like Your greatness.

Cong: For Your thoughts are very deep; / the ways of Your conduct are lofty.

Leader: There is no majesty like Your majesty, / no humility like Your humility.

Cong: There is no holiness like Your holiness, / no nearness like Your nearness.

Leader: There is no righteousness like Your righteousness, / no salvation like Your salvation.

Cong: There is no strong arm like Your strong arm, / no sound as loud as Your mighty thunder.

Leader: There is no mercy like Your mercy, / no compassion like Your compassion.

Cong: There is no divinity like Your divinity; / none can do wonders as can Your glorious name.

Leader: For in Your name the angels make haste, / to work wonders for Your oppressed people when You remember them.

Cong: Enchanters and sorcerers do not press You; / no spell or enchantment can defeat You.

Leader: Even all shrewd men could never defeat You, / nor magicians and sorcerers.

Cong: You leave wise men dumbfounded; / crafty men and magicians could never overpower You.

Leader: None could reverse Your plans / or void the counsel of Your concealed decrees.

Cong: You shall never be swayed from Your will; / none can cause You to hasten or delay it.

Leader: Your counsel shall void the counsel of all advisrs; / Your might weakens the hearts of brave men. o

Cong: You alone command all; Your dread straightens the paths of men; / no one gives You orders or commands You.

Leader: You are the hope of all – but You do not hope; / You satiate all souls who await You.

Cong: And all creatures and all that is theirs – / Your honor cannot be fathomed.

Leader: Your thoughts are not like their thoughts, / for there is no creator but You alone.

Cong: Our God is extraordinary and cannot be compared; / no one can grasp our Master’s loftiness.

Leader: He is the most hidden of all hidden, concealed / of all concealed, and of all enshrouded.

Cong: More veiled than anything veiled; more deeply encrypted than anything encrypted; more powerful than any powerful being.

Leader: Exalted above all that is exalted; more mysterious / than any mysterious thing; His name is everlasting.

Cong: Higher than the highest being, loftier / than all lofty and all unknowable.

Leader: Concealed, deeper than the deepest; / His knowledge shall evade the heart of he who attempts to know Him.

Cong: For intellect, knowledge and wisdom / lack the power to attribute anything to Him.

Leader: They are incapable of grasping His quality and quantity; / they cannot find any semblance of Him.

Cong: Nor can they attribute to Him chance or temporality; change or subordinacy, / attachment to another or dependence, physical light or darkness.

Leader: They cannot attach to Him an appearance or color; nor any natural thing that is six [like the movements] or seven [like the physical quantities].

Cong: Therefore, all human thought is confused, / all calculations disturbed.

Leader: All thoughts and reflections / are powerless to apply measurements to Him.

Cong: And cannot assess or apply limits to Him, / nor describe Him or expose Him.

Leader: With all our intellect we have searched for Him, / trying with our knowledge to discover what He is.

Cong: We have not discovered His nature nor have we become familiar with Him, / but we have recognized Him from His deeds.

Leader: For He alone is the sole Creator, / a living, omnipotent Being, uniquely wise.

Cong: For He existed before all, / therefore He is called the ancient God.

Leader: He created all from nothingness; / we know that He is omnipotent.

Cong: All His works are performed with wisdom; / we know they are a result of insight.

Leader: When He renews creation each and every day, / we know that He is the God of the universe.

Cong: Since He preceded all, / we know that He is everlasting.

Leader: must not have doubts about our Creator, / neither in our hearts nor in our words. One

Cong: We shall not attribute physicality to Him; / we shall not ascribe to Him subordinacy or form.

Leader: We shall not consider Him to be in a sitting or standing position, / nor a natural species or defined power or limited being.

Cong: He is not like any of the visible beings who were granted intellect / and knowledge in the ten statements of creation.

Leader: Nor can He be defined within the seven physical quantities or six movements, / nor the three decreed characteristics, nor the times or measurements.

Cong: For the Creator has none of these, / since He created them all as one.

Leader: All will shrivel and pass; / they shall perish and come to an end.

Cong: But You shall rise up and waste them away, / for You are forever alive and shall endure.