This is an invitation to begin a new day with a short Jewish meditation for German speakers. I was inspired by Shefa Gold’s Chants, which takes a phrase from each of the daily Psalms and sets it to a melody. My German translation offers a wording that can also be sung alternately with the Hebrew phrase. (For the melodies, find Shefa Gold’s site here.) It works of course also as a way to pause briefly during the day for a Jewish meditative moment. . . .

A Friday night siddur in Hebrew with German translation produced by the first egalitarian German speaking minyan and Rosh Ḥodesh group in Berlin between 1995 and 1998. “Gut Schabbes,” a project for an equal Ḳabbalat Shabbat at home, was supported by a grant from the ZURÜCKGEBEN Foundation[foot]Zurückgeben = „Giving Back“[/foot] in 1995. . . .