Leader: I will sing sweet psalms and I will weave songs, to You for whom my soul longs.

Cong: My soul yearns for the shelter of Your hand, that all Your mystic secrets I might understand.

Leader: Whenever I speak of Your glory above, my heart is yearning for Your love.

Cong: So Your glories I will proclaim, and in songs of love give honor to Your name.

Leader: I will tell of Your glory though I have not seen You imagine and describe You, though I have not known You. ,

Cong: By the hand of Your prophets, through Your servants’ mystery, You gave a glimpse of Your wondrous majesty.

Leader: Recounting Your grandeur and Your glory, of Your great deeds they told the story.

Cong: They depicted You, though not as You are, but as You do: Your acts, Your power.

Leader: They represented You in many visions; through them all You are One without divisions.

Cong: They saw You, now old, then young, Your head with gray, with black hair hung.

Leader: Age on the day of judgment, yet on the day of war, a young warrior with mighty hands they saw.

Cong: Triumph like a helmet He wore on his head; His right hand and holy arm to victory have led.

Leader: His curls are filled with dewdropsof light, His locks with fragments of the night.

Cong: He will glory in me, for He delights in me; My diadem of beauty He shall be.

Leader: His head is like pure beaten gold; Engraved on His brow, His sacred name behold.

Cong: For grace and glory, beauty and renown, His people have adorned Him with a crown.

Leader: Like a youth’s, His hair in locks unfurls; Its black tresses flowing in curls.

Cong: Jerusalem, His splendor, is the dwelling place of right; may He prize it as His highest delight.

Leader: Like a crown in His hand may His treasured people be, a turban of beauty and of majesty.

Cong: He bore them, carried them, with a crown He adorned them. They were precious in His sight, and He honored them.

Leader: His glory is on me; my glory is on Him. He is near to me when I call to Him.

Cong: He is bright and rosy; red will be His dress, when He comes from Edom, treading the winepress.

Leader: He showed the tefillin-knot to Moses, humble, wise, when the LORD’s likeness was before his eyes.

Cong: He delights in His people; the humble He does raise – He glories in them; He sits enthroned upon their praise.

Leader: Your first word, Your call to every age, is true: O seek the people who seek You.

Cong: My many songs please take and hear and may my hymn of joy to You come near.

Leader: May my praise be a crown for Your head, and like incense before You, the prayers I have said.

Cong: May a poor man’s song be precious in Your eyes, like a song sung over sacrifice.

Leader: To the One who sustains all, may my blessing take flight: Creator, Life-Giver, God of right and might.

Cong: And when I offer blessing, to me Your head incline: accepting it as spice, fragrant and fine.

Leader: May my prayer be to You sweet song. For You my soul will always long.

Yours, LORD, are the greatness and the power, the glory, the majesty and splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as ead over all. Who can tell of the mighty acts of the LORD and make all His praise be heard?

MOURNER’S KADDISH

Mourner: יִתְגַּדַּל Magnified and sanctified may His great name be, in the world He created by His will. May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and in your days, and in the lifetime of all the house of Israel, swiftly and soon – and say: Amen.

All: May His great name be blessed for ever and all time.

Mourner: Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, above and beyond any blessing, song, praise and consolation uttered in the world – and say: Amen.

May there be great peace from heaven, and life for us and all Israel – and say: Amen.

May He who makes peace in His high places, make peace for us and all Israel – and say: Amen.