יִשְׁתַּבַּח שִׁמְךָ | Yishtabaḥ Shimkha, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (English)
יִשְׁתַּבַּח שִׁמְךָ לָעַד מַלְכֵּנוּ. הָאֵל הַמֶּלֶךְ הַגָּדוֹל וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בַּשָּׁמַיִם וּבָאָרֶץ. כִּי לְךָ נָאֶה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ וֵאלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ:	Your Name be praised, Always, Majestic One. Powerful and gentle Source, Making Heaven and Earth, sacred. It is our pleasure To dedicate to you, Our god and our parents’ god, Time and again:
שִׁיר וּשְׁבָחָה. הַלֵּל וְזִמְרָה. עוֹז וּמֶמְשָׁלָה. נֶצַח גְּדֻלָּה וּגְבוּרָה. תְּהִלָּה וְתִפְאֶרֶת. קְדֻשָּׁה וּמַלְכוּת: בְּרָכוֹת וְהוֹדָאוֹת לְשִׁמְךָ הַגָּדוֹל וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ. וּמֵעוֹלָם וְעַד עוֹלָם אַתָּה אֵל:	Music and Celebration,^[1] The context here, naturally flowing from “Az Yashir,” is the Shirat HaYam. Cf. Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 14:8:2 on Exodus 15:13. Also see, Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer 42.13, Zohar 2:132a:3 Jubilation and Symphony,^[2] Cf. Otzar Midrashim, Maaseh Beraishit & Maaseh Merkavah, Seder Rabbah d’Beraishit d’Merkavah 9 Fortissimo, Anthem,^[3] Cf. Zohar 2:132a:3 Victory March, Largo, Forte,^[4] Cf. I Chronicles 29:11, Otzar Midrashim, Maaseh Beraishit & Maaseh Merkavah, Seder Rabbah d’Beraishit d’Merkavah 9 Paean and Hymn,^[5] See above note, Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 14:8:2 on Exodus 15:13. Sanctus and maestoso, Laudo and Aria, Celebrating Your Divine reputation In every realm.^[6] i.e. first and last (alpha/omega) Cf. Rashi on Psalms 90:2:1
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה. אֵל מֶלֶךְ גָּדוֹל וּמְהֻלָּל בַּתִּשְׁבָּחוֹת.	We worship you, Yah, Generous, Great, Regal One, Who is the One, to whom we offer all these.
אֵל הַהוֹדָאוֹת. אֲדוֹן הַנִּפְלָאוֹת. בּוֹרֵא כָּל הַנְּשָׁמוֹת. רִבּוֹן כָּל הַמַּעֲשִׂים. הַבּוֹחֵר בְּשִׁירֵי זִמְרָה. מֶלֶךְ יָחִיד אֵל חֵי הָעוֹלָמִים:	Our god, whom we appreciate,^[7] Cf. Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot 10b:1; Taanit 6b:17; Taanit 7a:1 Source of all wonder,^[8] Cf. Otzar Midrashim, “Avraham our Father, The Story of Avraham our Father and Nimrod” Fountain of all souls,^[9] Cf. Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Moses Our Master, The Death of Moses (Version 1); Otzar Midrashim Midrashim on Moses Our Master, Drash on Petirat Moshe, 8 Author of all that happens,^[10] Cf. Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 17:7:2 on Exodus 17:7; Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Ki Teitzei 15 on Deuteronomy 25:18 Who delights in music and chant, Origin of Unity.^[11] Cf. Deuteronomy 33:5 and Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Beha’alotcha 21 You are the Life That flows Through all the worlds.^[12] Cf. Deuteronomy 32:40, Daniel 6:27
אָמֵן	Amen

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his adaptation of the liturgy for the final section of liturgy from the Pesukei Dezimrah, “Yishtabaḥ Shimkha,” in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his English translation side-by-side with these verses in Hebrew from Exodus and Neḥemyah. I have replaced anglicizations and removed capitalization for divine pronouns. –Aharon N. Varady

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1	The context here, naturally flowing from “Az Yashir,” is the Shirat HaYam. Cf. Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 14:8:2 on Exodus 15:13. Also see, Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer 42.13, Zohar 2:132a:3
2	Cf. Otzar Midrashim, Maaseh Beraishit & Maaseh Merkavah, Seder Rabbah d’Beraishit d’Merkavah 9
3	Cf. Zohar 2:132a:3
4	Cf. I Chronicles 29:11, Otzar Midrashim, Maaseh Beraishit & Maaseh Merkavah, Seder Rabbah d’Beraishit d’Merkavah 9
5	See above note, Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 14:8:2 on Exodus 15:13.
6	i.e. first and last (alpha/omega) Cf. Rashi on Psalms 90:2:1
7	Cf. Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot 10b:1; Taanit 6b:17; Taanit 7a:1
8	Cf. Otzar Midrashim, “Avraham our Father, The Story of Avraham our Father and Nimrod”
9	Cf. Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Moses Our Master, The Death of Moses (Version 1); Otzar Midrashim Midrashim on Moses Our Master, Drash on Petirat Moshe, 8
10	Cf. Mekhilta d’Rabbi Yishmael 17:7:2 on Exodus 17:7; Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Ki Teitzei 15 on Deuteronomy 25:18
11	Cf. Deuteronomy 33:5 and Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Beha’alotcha 21
12	Cf. Deuteronomy 32:40, Daniel 6:27

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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17