Song After the Revolution, an adaptation of Psalms 92 for Friday Evening by Rabbi Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago)
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open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license date_src_start: 2021-06-06 date_src_end: 2021-06-06 languages_meta: [{"name":"English","code":"eng","standard":"ISO 639-3"}] scripts_meta: [{"name":"Latin","code":"Latn","standard":"ISO 15924"}] Date: 2021-06-06
Last Updated: 2025-04-11
Categories: Ḳabbalat Shabbat
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Paraliturgical Psalms 92, Psalms 92, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof
Excerpt: A paraliturgical adaptation of Psalms 92. . . .
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Tonight we raise the cup,
tomorrow we’ll breathe deeply
and dwell in a world
without borders, without limit
in space or in time,
a world beyond wealth or scarcity,
a world where there is nothing
for us to do but to be.
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They said this day would never come,
yet here we are:
the surging waters have receded,
there is no oppressor, no oppressed,
no power but the one
coursing through every living
breathing satiated soul.
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Memories of past battles fading
like dry grass in the warm sun,
no more talk of enemies and strategies,
no more illusions, no more dreams, only
this eternal moment of victory
to celebrate and savor the world
as we always knew it could be.
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See how the justice we planted in the deep
dark soil now soars impossibly skyward,
rising up like a palm tree,
like a cedar, flourishing forever
ever swaying, ever bending
but never breaking.
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So tonight we raise the cup,
tomorrow we’ll breathe deeply
to savor a world recreated,
and when sun sets once again
we continue the struggle.
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This prayer for the evening of Shabbat is an adaptation of Psalms 92 (the Song for the Sabbath Day), a poetic rendering by Rabbi Brant Rosen for his congregation Tzedek Chicago. It was first published on his blog on 3 June 2021 in a post, “Judaism Beyond Zionism: Toward a New Jewish Liturgy.”
Contributor: Brant Rosen
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Name: Brant Rosen
Bio: Brant Rosen is the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago and the author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbis Path to Palestinian Solidarity (2012) and Songs After the Revolution: New Jewish Liturgy (2018). In 2020, he was named as a Topol Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.
Website: http://rabbibrant.com
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/ravboaz
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Name: Congregation Tzedek Chicago
Bio: Founded in 2015, Tzedek Chicago is an intentional Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity. The congregation's core values emphasize the Torah’s central narrative of liberation, the prophetic imperative to speak truth to power, and an expansive diasporic vision that views the entire world as a Jewish homeland with open borders for all.
Website: https://www.tzedekchicago.org
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/tzedek-chicago
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Title: Stream in Forest at Dusk (Image Catalog, PD)
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