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Morning Prayers

Preparation for Prayer

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The following poems, on this page and the next, both from the Middle Ages, are summary statements of Jewish faith, orienting us to the spiritual contours of the world that we actualize in the mind by the act of prayer.
Hebrew
אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר מָלַךְ בְּטֶרֶם כָּל־יְצִיר נִבְרָא. לְעֵת נַעֲשָׂה בְחֶפְצוֹ כֹּל אֲזַי מֶלֶךְ שְׁמוֹ נִקְרָא. וְאַחֲרֵי כִּכְלוֹת הַכֹּל לְבַדּוֹ יִמְלֹךְ נוֹרָא. וְהוּא הָיָה וְהוּא הֹוֶה וְהוּא יִהְיֶה בְּתִפְאָרָה. וְהוּא אֶחָד וְאֵין שֵׁנִי לְהַמְשִׁיל לוֹ לְהַחְבִּירָה. בְּלִי רֵאשִׁית בְּלִי תַכְלִית וְלוֹ הָעֹז וְהַמִּשְׂרָה. וְהוּא אֵלִי וְחַי גּוֹאֲלִי וְצוּר חֶבְלִי בְּעֵת צָרָה. וְהוּא נִסִּי וּמָנוֹס לִי מְנָת כּוֹסִי בְּיוֹם אֶקְרָא. בְּיָדוֹ אַפְקִיד רוּחִי בְּעֵת אִישָׁן וְאָעִירָה. וְעִם רוּחִי גְּוִיָּתִי יְהוָה לִי וְלֹא אִירָא.
English
LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, who reigned before the birth of any thing – When by His will all things were made then was His name proclaimed King. And when all things shall cease to be He alone will reign in awe. He was, He is, and He shall be glorious for evermore. He is One, there is none else, alone, unique, beyond compare; Without beginning, without end, His might, His rule are everywhere. He is my God; my Redeemer lives. He is the Rock on whom I rely – My banner and my safe retreat, my cup, my portion when I cry. Into His hand my soul I place, when I awake and when I sleep. The LORD is with me, I shall not fear; body and soul from harm will He keep.
Sephardi
Adon olam asher malach beterem kol-yetzir nivra. Le’et na’asah vecheftzo kol, azai Melech shemo nikra. Ve’acharei kichlot hakol, levado yimloch nora. Vehu hayah vehu hoveh vehu yihyeh betifarah. Vehu eḥad ve’ein sheni lehamshil lo leḥabirah. Beli reshit beli tachlit, velo ha’oz vehamisrah. Vehu Eli veḥai Go’ali, vetzur ḥevli be’et tzarah. Vehu nissi umanos li, menat kosi beyom ekra. Beyado afkid ruḥi be’et ishan ve’a’irah. Ve’im ruḥi geviyyati, Adonai li velo ira.