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Holy One, Beloved One. As I sit here trembling, vulnerable, scared, preparing to open my mouth, my heart, my soul in the heart of our vessel of this sacred community, and feeling wholly unworthy of the task, I pray you grant me the softness of heart and expansiveness of breath, that words and sounds that come from within me, from within us weave together so that we become the prayers we never even knew we needed to be. | |
Even when my joints and muscles hurt. Even when my heart and soul hurt. Even when my abdomen swells so that I can hardly inhale. Even when I can barely rise to stand before your Awesome presence. I promise that I will step into Your presence, into the heart of community. | |
It’s in You that I will find the ever-renewing strength to open us up to express all that’s inside. | |
אוֹחִילָה לָאֵל | Oḥilah la’El |
אוֹחִילָה לָאֵל אֲחַלֶּה פָנָיו אֶשְׁאֲלָה מִמֶּנּוּ מַעֲנֵה לָשׁוֹן אֲשֶׁר בִּקְהַל עָם אָשִׁיר עֻזּוֹ אַבִּיעָה רְנָנוֹת בְּעַד מִפְעָלָיו לְאָדָם מַעַרְכֵי לֵב וּמֵה׳ מַעֲנֵה לָשׁוֹן |
I pray to You, Dear One, That I may come into Your presence. Grant me proper speech, that I may sing of Your strength amidst a gathering of our community and utter praises describing your deeds. |
A shaliaḥ tsibbur is the one who serves as the representative of a minyan and the assembled congregation in their prayers in any given service of communal Jewish prayer. “The personal prayer of this shaliaḥ tsibbur” with a translation of the piyyut “Oḥilah la’El” was first published on Facebook by Rabbi Yosef Goldman and shared through The Open Siddur Project Discussion Group. Included in his prayer is the medieval piyyut, “Oḥilah la’El,” by an unknown author.
“אוֹחִילָה לָאֵל | Oḥilah la’El, a reshut and a personal prayer offered by the shaliaḥ tsibbur, Yosef Goldman” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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