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March 21, 2008
Shabbat Shalom
Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.
Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”
Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.
Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.
Amen
By the rivers of Babylon
we sat down and cried
as we remembered Zion
as we remembered Zion, our Holy City.
Answer us, answer us our King
answer us, answer us our Creator
answer us, answer us our King
answer us our King
answer us
answer us our Creator
By the rivers of Babylon...
Answer us...
Posted by LindaSoG at March 21, 2008 04:43 PM
Comments
Amen. Am Yisrael Chai.
Posted by: Vinnie at March 22, 2008 12:56 AM
I love that song, I've heard it many times but that's the first time I've seen the video. Wonderful!
Posted by: Chana at March 23, 2008 07:14 AM