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Source (Hebrew)
Translation (English)
א לַמְנַצֵּ֥ח בִּנְגִינֹ֗ת מִזְמ֥וֹר שִֽׁיר׃
ב אֱלֹהִ֗ים יְחָנֵּ֥נוּ וִֽיבָרְכֵ֑נוּ
יָ֤אֵ֥ר פָּנָ֖יו אִתָּ֣נוּ סֶֽלָה׃
2 God, bless us with grace!
Let Your loving Face shine on us!
8 Bless us God,
All the ends of the Earth
Will esteem You!
This English translation of Psalms 67 by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l, was first published in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). Versification by Aharon Varady.
Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.
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I am SO GRATEFUL to have found this project online. I was searching for a fresh translation of the 67th Psalm and stumbled upon Reb Zalman’s translation. I’m an American Baptist minister who treasures ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, and I’m always offering space for my congregation to access scripture and the divine in new, immediate ways.
For our worship service, I set this in responsive form and changed a few of the words. I hope I didn’t bowdlerize it. See below:
Leader: God, bless us with grace!
People: Let Your loving Face shine upon us!
We want to get to know Your way here on Earth, seeing how Your help is given to every group of people.
Oh, how the countless peoples will thank You; every one of them will sing of their thankfulness.
Many people will be joyous and sing when You set them right with forthrightness.
And the peoples, as You lead them, will honor You.
Oh, how the countless peoples will thank You! Every one of them will sing their gratitude.
The Earth will offer her harvest, blessings that come from God.
Unison: Yes, from our God! Bless us, O Lord; all the ends of the Earth will cherish You!
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I am SO GRATEFUL to have found this project online. I was searching for a fresh translation of the 67th Psalm and stumbled upon Reb Zalman’s translation. I’m an American Baptist minister who treasures ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, and I’m always offering space for my congregation to access scripture and the divine in new, immediate ways.
For our worship service, I set this in responsive form and changed a few of the words. I hope I didn’t bowdlerize it. See below:
Leader: God, bless us with grace!
People: Let Your loving Face shine upon us!
We want to get to know Your way here on Earth, seeing how Your help is given to every group of people.
Oh, how the countless peoples will thank You; every one of them will sing of their thankfulness.
Many people will be joyous and sing when You set them right with forthrightness.
And the peoples, as You lead them, will honor You.
Oh, how the countless peoples will thank You! Every one of them will sing their gratitude.
The Earth will offer her harvest, blessings that come from God.
Unison: Yes, from our God! Bless us, O Lord; all the ends of the Earth will cherish You!