ברכות השחר | Morning blessings, by Rabbi Tamar Duvdevani

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ מְקוֹר הַחַיִּים, בּוֹרֵאת אוֹר וּמַרְחֶקֶת חֹשֶׁךְ, הַפּוֹרֶשֶׂת אֲרָצוֹת וּפוֹתַחַת דְּרָכִים.	Blessed are you Yah, source of life, creator of light and remover of darkness spreading lands and opening roads.
בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ מְקוֹר הַחַיִּים, יוֹצֶרֶת הָאָדָם בִּתְבוּנָה, נוֹתֶנֶת בּוֹ נְקָבִים נְקָבִים חֲלוּלִים חֲלוּלִים וְנוֹפַחַת רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים לְנַגֵּן בָּם.	Blessed are you Yah, source of life, former of human beings in wisdom creating within them openings and vessels, and blowing the wind of God to play them.
בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ מְקוֹר הַחַיִּים, שֶׁעֲשִׂיתִינִי בְּצַלְמֵךְ, שֶׁעֲשִׂיתִינִי בַּת־חוֹרִין, שֶׁעֲשִׂיתִינִי אֲנִי.	Blessed are you Yah, source of life, who made me in your image who made me free, who made me me.
בְּרוּכָה אַתְּ יָהּ, אִמִּי, אֵם כָּל חַי הַפּוֹרֶשֶׂת עָלַי כְּנָפֵךְ – הֲיִי לִי מַחֲסֶה וְאֹהֶל, תְּנִי לַיָּעֵף כֹּחַ.	Blessed are you Yah, my mother, mother of all living, who spreads her wings upon me – Be a shelter and a tent unto me, give strength to the weary.

“ברכות השחר” (Morning blessings) by הרבה תמר דבדבני Rabbi Tamar Duvdevani (Ph.D.), appears in תפילת האדם, סידור רפורמי ישראלי (2020), the Israeli Reform Movement siddur edited by Rabbi Alona Lisitsa (Ph.D.) and Rabbi Dr. Dalia Marx. English translation by Orna Meir.

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Tefilat ha-Adam (Israeli Reform Movement, 2020)

Tefilot ha-Adam p.223

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Orna Meir-Stacey (translation)

Orna Meir-Stacey lives in Cambridge, England.

Tamar Duvdevani

Rabbi Tamar Duvdevani is Librarian of the S. Zalman and Ayala Abramov Library at HUC-JIR's Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem. She was ordained in Jerusalem in 2003 and has served as a Rabbi-educator teaching Talmud and Rabbinic literature in Batei Midrash (education centers) throughout Israel. Tamar earned her Ph.D. in 2018 from HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, where she wrote her dissertation on “Literary Aspects of Rabbinic Attributions in the Babylonian Talmud." She has a B.A. in Yiddish and Jewish Studies from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an M.A. in Talmud and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a M.A.H.L. and M.Phil. from HUC-JIR. She was born and raised in Kibbutz Rosh-Hanikra and lives in Jerusalem.

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