tagged: interpretation as prayer • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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

Contributor(s):	Shim'on Menachem
Shared on:	י״ד בסיון ה׳תשע״ה (2015-05-31)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Blessings After Eating
Tags:	interpretive translation, תהלים Psalms, Tehillim, Psalms 126, interpretation as prayer
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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. . . .

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on:	כ״ד במרחשון ה׳תשע״ג (2012-11-09)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Ecotastrophes, Shema
Tags:	eco-conscious, interconnectedness, שמע shema, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer, Deuteronomy 11:13-21
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on:	י״ב באב ה׳תשע״א (2011-08-12)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Shema
Tags:	eco-conscious, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer, Deuteronomy 11:13-21, Numbers 15:37-41, Deuteronomy 6:4
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • 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. . . .