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תהלים קכ״ו | Shir Hama’alot :: Psalms 126, a poetic translation by Shim’on Menachem

Contributor(s):	Shim'on Menachem
Categories:	Blessings After Eating
Tags:	תהלים Psalms, Tehillim, Psalms 126, interpretation as prayer, interpretive translation
	This Psalm is straightforwardly post-exilic (for which see Sefer haWiki) but switches in its narrative perspective between before and after the return from Babylon, between gratitude and longing for return, helped by the profoundly non-linear mechanics of verbal tense and aspect in biblical Hebrew. The Psalmist chooses words associated with joy (s’ḥoq, rinah) that are tinged with other, more complicated emotions. Here’s what came out. . . .

והיה אם שמע | v’haya im shemo’a: a Prayer in a Time of Planetary Danger by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Ecotastrophes, Shema
Tags:	שמע shema, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, eco-conscious, v'haya im shemo'a, interconnectedness, interpretation as prayer, Deuteronomy 11:13-21
	A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .

שְׁמַע | Shema, an interpretive translation by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (2003)

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Shema
Tags:	paraliturgical shema, v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer, eco-conscious, Deuteronomy 11:13-21, Numbers 15:37-41, Deuteronomy 6:4, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia
	Sh’sh’sh’ma Yisra’el — Listen, You Godwrestlers! Pause from your wrestling and hush’sh’sh To hear — YHWH/ Yahh Hear in the stillness the still silent voice, The silent breathing that intertwines life; YHWH/ Yahh elohenu Breath of life is our God, What unites all the varied forces creating all worlds into one-ness, Each breath unique, And all unified; YHWH / Yahh echad! Yahh is One. Listen, You Godwrestlers! No one people alone owns this Unify-force; YHWH / Yahh is One. . . .

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