[HANASHIR:14840] Re: Morning Blessings

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Neil 

Hope you are well. I could not find the translation we used at hava , but 
here is one we used for indepencece day.  Perhaps ellen brought the other one. 
Two good sources would be shira milgroms siddur from white plains NY and Larry 
Kushner from Sudbury MA

Shabbat Shalom

Craig 


Birchot Hashachar

Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam…b'tzalmo
You have made me in your image.

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates 
Shall stand a mighty woman with a torch
    
Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam
You have made me free 

Her flame is the imprisoned lightning
And her name Mother of Exiles.

Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam…
You clothe the naked 
You open the eyes of the blind


>From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome
Her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor. 
    
Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam…
        You free the captives
You lift the fallen

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp
Give me your tired and your poor 
        
Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam…
You have provided for my needs 
You have guided my steps

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam…
You give strength to the weary 

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door

Baruch at Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam
You Remove sleep from my eyes
And slumber from my eyelids





Craig

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