Prayer for Dew

Prayer for Dew On the first day of Pesah, the Ark is opened at the Repetition of the Musaf Amida. All stand. When I proclaim the LORD’s name, give glory to our God. Deut. 32 O LORD, open my lips, so that my mouth may declare Your praise. Ps, 51 PATRIARCHS "173 Blessed are You, LorD our God and God of our fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob; the great, mighty and awesome God, God Most High, who bestows acts of lovingkindness, who creates all, who remembers the loving-kindness of the fathers and will bring a Redeemer to their children’s children for the sake of His name, in love. King, Helper, Savior, Shield: imy1a With His consent I will speak of hidden things, that for this people, by this prayer, there may be joy in dew. May the valley and its vegetation be renewed through dew, springing up under His shade anew. Sign of regeneration, shield of future generations — dew. "Blessed are You, LORD, Shield of Abraham. period; others that he lived in the sixth century. His compositions are full of allusions to rabbinic traditions; he coined many new words, and his style intricate, erudite, full of wordplay and subtle acrostics — influenced many later liturgical poets. inva With His consent: The preamble to the prayer involves an untranslatable play on the similar-sounding words hidot (“hidden things”), lehahadot (“have joy”), and lahadot (“be as new”: an Aramaic form of the Hebrew hadash). The fourth line is a complex allusion to a wedding. It uses two