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DIVINE MIGHT

Hebrew

אַתָּה גִּבּוֹר לְעוֹלָם, אֲדֹנָי, מְחַיֵּה מֵתִים אַתָּה, רַב לְהוֹשִׁיעַ.

English

You are eternally mighty, LORD. You give life to the dead and have great power to save.

Sephardi

Atah gibor l'olam, Adonai, mechayeh metim Atah, rav l'hoshia.

The phrase “He makes the wind blow and the rain fall” is said from Simhat Torah until Pesah. The phrase “He causes the dew to fall” is said from Pesah until Shemini Atzeret. See laws 131–133.

Hebrew

בַּחֹרֶף: מַשִּׁיב הָרוּחַ וּמוֹרִיד הַגֶּשֶׁם. בָּאָבִיב וּבַקַּיִץ: מוֹרִיד הַטָּל.

English

In fall and winter: He makes the wind blow and the rain fall. In spring and summer: He causes the dew to fall.

Sephardi

Bachoref: Mashiv haruach u'morid hageshem. Ba'aviv u'vakayitz: Morid hatal.

Hebrew

מְכַלְכֵּל חַיִּים בְּחֶסֶד, מְחַיֵּה מֵתִים בְּרַחֲמִים רַבִּים, סוֹמֵךְ נוֹפְלִים, וְרוֹפֵא חוֹלִים, וּמַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים וּמְקַיֵּם אֱמוּנָתוֹ לִישֵׁנֵי עָפָר. מִי כָמוֹךָ בַּעַל גְּבוּרוֹת וּמִי דוֹמֶה לָךְ, מֶלֶךְ מֵמִית וּמְחַיֶּה וּמַצְמִיחַ יְשׁוּעָה.

English

He sustains the living with loving-kindness, and with great compassion revives the dead. He supports the fallen, heals the sick, sets captives free, and keeps His faith with those who sleep in the dust. Who is like You, Master of might, and who can compare to You, O King who brings death and gives life, and makes salvation grow?

Sephardi

Mechalkel chayyim b'chesed, mechayeh metim b'rachamim rabbim, somech noflim, v'rofe cholim, u'matir asurim u'mekayem emunato lishenei afar. Mi chamocha ba'al gevurot u'mi domeh lach, Melech memit u'mechayeh u'matzmiach yeshuah.

Hebrew

בְּעֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְשׁוּבָה: מִי כָמוֹךָ אַב הָרַחֲמָן, זוֹכֵר יְצוּרָיו לְחַיִּים בְּרַחֲמִים. וְנֶאֱמָן אַתָּה לְהַחֲיוֹת מֵתִים. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהוָה, מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים.

English

Between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur: Who is like You, compassionate Father, who remembers His creatures in compassion, for life? Faithful are You to revive the dead. Blessed are You, LORD, who revives the dead.

Sephardi

Ba'aseret y'mei teshuvah: Mi chamocha Av harachaman, zocher y'tzurav l'chayyim b'rachamim. V'ne'eman Atah l'hachayot metim. Baruch Atah Adonai, mechayeh hametim.

// Commentary

אָבוֹת Blessing 1: Patriarchs (previous page). In these opening chords we refer back to the dawn of our people’s history — the days of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In so doing, we echo Moses, who constantly referred to the patriarchs when praying for forgiveness for the people. God’s love for, and covenant with, those who first heard His call is the supreme ground on which we stand when we turn to Him in prayer. The paragraph ends with a reference to Abraham, who was the first person to heed God’s call.

לְמַעַנְךָ אֱלֹהִים חַיִּים For Your sake, O God of life: the phrase literally means “Living God.” The translation, however, conveys the poetic structure of this short but powerful prayer: four phrases, each ending with the word hayyim, “life.”

גְּבוּרוֹת Blessing 2: Divine Might. The fivefold reference to the resurrection of the dead reflects the controversy between the Sadducees and Pharisees in the late Second Temple era. The Sadducees rejected belief in resurrection; the Pharisees, whose heirs we are, affirmed it. Belief that those who died will one day live again is one of Judaism’s great principles of hope, set out in the vision of Ezekiel of the valley of dry bones that came to life once more. Jews kept hope alive; hope kept the Jewish people alive.