Wow, Please, Thanks, Sorry Rosh Hashana II 5780 - Congregation Shearith Israel, Atlanta Georgia

(1) When God began to create heaven and earth— (2) the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water— (3) God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

(26) And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.” (27) And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (28) God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.”

(21) Then Moses held out his arm over the sea and the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split, (22) and the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

(1) Praised are You, Lord our God King of the universe, who with wisdom fashioned the human body, creating openings and organs. It is known before your exalted Throne that should but one of them, by being blocked or opened, fail to function, it would be impossible to exist. Praised are you, Lord, healer of all flesh who performs wonders.

(2) Give thanks to Adonoy, proclaim His Name;

(3) make His deeds known among the nations.

(4) Sing to Him, compose songs to Him,

(5) speak of all His wonders.

(6) Take pride¹¹in [uttering] His Holy Name,

(7) let the heart rejoice

(8) of those who seek Adonoy.

(9) Search for Adonoy and His might,

(10) seek His presence continually.

(11) Remember the wonders He has performed,

(12) His miracles,and the laws from His mouth.

(13) [You,] the seed of Yisrael His servant,

(14) children of Yaakov, His chosen ones.

(15) He is Adonoy our God;

(16) the entire earth is governed by His laws.

(17) Remember His covenant forever—

(18) the word He commanded

(19) to a thousand generations—

(20) which He made as a treaty with Avraham,

(21) and [which was] His oath to Yitzchak.

(22) He established it for Yaakov as a statute,

(23) for Yisrael as an everlasting covenant..

(1) We lend power to the holiness of this day. For it is tremendous and awe filled, and on it your kingship will be exalted, your throne will be established in loving-kindness, and you will sit on that throne in truth.

(2) It is true that you are the one who judges, and reproves, who knows all, and bears witness, who inscribes, and seals, who reckons and enumerates. You remember all that is forgotten. You open the book of records, and from it, all shall be read. In it lies each person's insignia.

(3) And with a great shofar it is sounded, and a thin silent voice shall be heard. And the angels shall be alarmed, and dread and fear shall seize them as they proclaim: behold! the Day of Judgment on which the hosts of heaven shall be judged, for they too shall not be judged blameless by you, and all creatures shall parade before you as a herd of sheep. As a shepherd herds his flock, directing his sheep to pass under his staff, so do you shall pass, count, and record the souls of all living, and decree a limit to each persons days, and inscribe their final judgment.

(4) On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed - how many shall pass away and how many shall be born, who shall live and who shall die, who in good time, and who by an untimely death, who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by wild beast, who by famine and who by thirst, who by earthquake and who by plague, who by strangulation and who by lapidation, who shall have rest and who wander, who shall be at peace and who pursued, who shall be serene and who tormented, who shall become impoverished and who wealthy, who shall be debased, and who exalted. But repentance, prayer and righteousness avert the severity of the decree.

(5) For your praise is just as your name. You are slow to anger and quick to be appeased. For you do not desire the death of the condemned, rather, that they turn from their path and live and you wait for them until the day of their death, and if they repent, you receive them immediately. (It is true -) [For] you are their Creator and You understand their inclination, for they are but flesh and blood.

(6) We come from dust, and return to dust. We labour by our lives for bread, we are like broken shards, like dry grass, and like a withered flower; like a passing shadow and a vanishing cloud, like a breeze that passes, like dust that scatters, like a fleeting dream. But You are the king who lives eternal.

(23) Abraham came forward and said, “Will You sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? (24) What if there should be fifty innocent within the city; will You then wipe out the place and not forgive it for the sake of the innocent fifty who are in it? (25) Far be it from You to do such a thing, to bring death upon the innocent as well as the guilty, so that innocent and guilty fare alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” (26) And the LORD answered, “If I find within the city of Sodom fifty innocent ones, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.” (27) Abraham spoke up, saying, “Here I venture to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes: (28) What if the fifty innocent should lack five? Will You destroy the whole city for want of the five?” And He answered, “I will not destroy if I find forty-five there.”

(17) Abraham then prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave girls, so that they bore children;

(20) Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. (21) Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD responded to his plea, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

(23) A long time after that, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites were groaning under the bondage and cried out; and their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God. (24) God heard their moaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. (25) God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them.

(10) In her wretchedness, she prayed to the LORD, weeping all the while. (11) And she made this vow: “O LORD of Hosts, if You will look upon the suffering of Your maidservant and will remember me and not forget Your maidservant, and if You will grant Your maidservant a male child, I will dedicate him to the LORD for all the days of his life; and no razor shall ever touch his head.” (12) As she kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth. (13) Now Hannah was praying in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. (14) Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Sober up!” (15) And Hannah replied, “Oh no, my lord! I am a very unhappy woman. I have drunk no wine or other strong drink, but I have been pouring out my heart to the LORD.

(10) In her wretchedness, she prayed to the LORD, weeping all the while. (11) And she made this vow: “O LORD of Hosts, if You will look upon the suffering of Your maidservant and will remember me and not forget Your maidservant, and if You will grant Your maidservant a male child, I will dedicate him to the LORD for all the days of his life; and no razor shall ever touch his head.” (12) As she kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth. (13) Now Hannah was praying in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. (14) Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Sober up!” (15) And Hannah replied, “Oh no, my lord! I am a very unhappy woman. I have drunk no wine or other strong drink, but I have been pouring out my heart to the LORD.

Heal us Adonai, and we will be healed. Save us that we shall be saved, for You are our praise. Bring complete healing to all our wounds.

May it find favor before You, my God and the God of my ancestors. That you quickly send a complete healing from heaven. A healing of the soul and a healing of the body to _______ among all others who are sick among Israel. For You are our sovereign, healer, trustworthy, merciful One. Blessed are You, who heals the sick among His people Israel.

(113) Our Father, our King!

(114) favor us and answer us

(115) for we have no accomplishments;

(116) deal with us charitably and kindly

(117) and deliver us.

(118) The Ark is closed:

(3) In the course of time, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil; (4) and Abel, for his part, brought the choicest of the firstlings of his flock. The LORD paid heed to Abel and his offering,

(18) So Noah came out, together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. (19) Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that stirs on earth came out of the ark by families. (20) Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking of every clean animal and of every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. (21) The LORD smelled the pleasing odor, and the LORD said to Himself: “Never again will I doom the earth because of man, since the devisings of man’s mind are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living being, as I have done.

(6) “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival of the LORD. (7) Throughout the seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten; no leavened bread shall be found with you, and no leaven shall be found in all your territory. (8) And you shall explain to your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I went free from Egypt.’ (9) “And this shall serve you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead—in order that the Teaching of the LORD may be in your mouth—that with a mighty hand the LORD freed you from Egypt.

(1) Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said: I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously; Horse and driver He has hurled into the sea. (2) The LORD is my strength and might; He is become my deliverance. This is my God and I will enshrine Him; The God of my father, and I will exalt Him.

(3) They took over from Moses all the gifts that the Israelites had brought, to carry out the tasks connected with the service of the sanctuary. But when these continued to bring freewill offerings to him morning after morning, (4) all the artisans who were engaged in the tasks of the sanctuary came, each from the task upon which he was engaged, (5) and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed for the tasks entailed in the work that the LORD has commanded to be done.” (6) Moses thereupon had this proclamation made throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make further effort toward gifts for the sanctuary!” So the people stopped bringing: (7) their efforts had been more than enough for all the tasks to be done.

(1) If his offering is a sacrifice of well-being— If he offers of the herd, whether a male or a female, he shall bring before the LORD one without blemish.

(1) ... The Order of Awaking in the Morning

(2) ... Modeh Ani

(3) ... As soon as one awakes, he should rise like a lion to serve his Creator and say "I give thanks before you..." and so on until "Your faithfulness." [and since it does not contain the Divine Name,] it can be said without the washing of the hands.

(228) THANKSGIVING

(229) We are thankful to You

(230) that You Adonoy are our God

(231) and the God of our fathers forever;

(232) Rock of our lives,

(233) Shield of our deliverance,

(234) You are in every generation.

(235) We will give thanks to You

(236) and recount Your praise,

(237) for our lives

(238) which are committed into Your hand,

(239) and for our souls

(240) which are entrusted to You,

(241) and for Your miracles of every day with us,

(242) and for Your wonders and benefactions

(243) at all times—

(244) evening, morning and noon.

(245) (You are) The Beneficent One—

(246) for Your compassion is never withheld;

(247) And (You are) the Merciful One—

(248) for Your kindliness never ceases;

(249) we have always placed our hope in You.

(250) And for all the foregoing

(251) blessed and exalted

(252) be your Name, our King

(253) constantly, forever and ever.

(254) Inscribe for a good life

(255) all the children of Your covenant.

(257) And all the living shall thank You forever

(258) and praise

(259) Your Name with sincerity

(260) the Almighty, Who is our deliverance

(261) and our help forever.

(262) Blessed are You, Adonoy,

(263) “The Beneficent” is Your Name

(264) and You it is fitting to praise.

(11) But Moses implored the LORD his God, saying, “Let not Your anger, O Lord, blaze forth against Your people, whom You delivered from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand. (12) Let not the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that He delivered them, only to kill them off in the mountains and annihilate them from the face of the earth.’ Turn from Your blazing anger, and renounce the plan to punish Your people. (13) Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how You swore to them by Your Self and said to them: I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will give to your offspring this whole land of which I spoke, to possess forever.” (14) And the LORD renounced the punishment He had planned to bring upon His people.

(32) Now, if You will forgive their sin [well and good]; but if not, erase me from the record which You have written!” (33) But the LORD said to Moses, “He who has sinned against Me, him only will I erase from My record.

(6) The LORD passed before him and proclaimed: “The LORD! the LORD! a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness, (7) extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He does not remit all punishment, but visits the iniquity of parents upon children and children’s children, upon the third and fourth generations.” (8) Moses hastened to bow low to the ground in homage, (9) and said, “If I have gained Your favor, O Lord, pray, let the Lord go in our midst, even though this is a stiffnecked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own!”

(6) and He said, “Hear these My words: When a prophet of the LORD arises among you, I make Myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. (7) Not so with My servant Moses; he is trusted throughout My household. (8) With him I speak mouth to mouth, plainly and not in riddles, and he beholds the likeness of the LORD. How then did you not shrink from speaking against My servant Moses!” (9) Still incensed with them, the LORD departed. (10) As the cloud withdrew from the Tent, there was Miriam stricken with snow-white scales! When Aaron turned toward Miriam, he saw that she was stricken with scales. (11) And Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, account not to us the sin which we committed in our folly. (12) Let her not be as one dead, who emerges from his mother’s womb with half his flesh eaten away.” (13) So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “O God, pray heal her!” (14) But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father spat in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of camp for seven days, and then let her be readmitted.”

(17) Therefore, I pray, let my Lord’s forbearance be great, as You have declared, saying, (18) ‘The LORD! slow to anger and abounding in kindness; forgiving iniquity and transgression; yet not remitting all punishment, but visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and fourth generations.’ (19) Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to Your great kindness, as You have forgiven this people ever since Egypt.” (20) And the LORD said, “I pardon, as you have asked.

Forgive us, our Father for we have sinned. Pardon us, our King, for we have transgressed, for You forgive and pardon. Blessed are You, Adonai, who is gracious and quick to forgive.

(290) Our God and God of our fathers,

(291) let our prayer come before you

(292) and do not ignore our supplication.

(293) For we are not so brazen-faced

(294) and stiff-necked

(295) to say to you,

(296) Adonoy, our God, and God of our fathers,

(297) “We are righteous and have not sinned.”

(298) But, indeed, we and our fathers have sinned.

(299) We have trespassed [against God and man, and we are devastated by our guilt];

(300) We have betrayed [God and man, we have been ungrateful for the good done to us];

(301) We have stolen; We have slandered.

(302) We have caused others to sin;

(303) We have caused others to commit sins for which they are called רְשָׁעִים, wicked;

(304) We have sinned with malicious intent;

(305) We have forcibly taken others' possessions even though we paid for them;

(306) We have added falsehood upon falsehood; We have joined with evil individuals or groups;

(307) We have given harmful advice;

(308) We have deceived; we have mocked;

(309) We have rebelled against God and His Torah;

(310) We have caused God to be angry with us;

(311) We have turned away from God's Torah;

(312) We have sinned deliberately;

(313) We have been negligent in our performance of the commandments;

(314) We have caused our friends grief;

(315) We have been stiff-necked, refusing to admit that our suffering is caused by our own sins.

(316) We have committed sins for which we are called רָשָׁע, [raising a hand to hit someone].

(317) We have committed sins which are the result of moral corruption;

(318) We have committed sins which the Torah refers to as abominations;

(319) We have gone astray;

(320) We have led others astray.

(321) We have turned away

(322) from Your commandments

(323) and from Your good laws,

(324) and we have gained nothing from it.

(325) And You are the Righteous One

(326) in all [punishment] that has come upon us;

(327) for You have acted truthfully

(328) and we have acted wickedly.

(413) by the prattle of our lips.⁸⁴This includes idle gossip, which is certainly forbidden in the synagogue at all times.

(414) For the sin we committed before You

(415) with haughty eyes.

(416) And for the sin we committed before You

(417) with impudence.⁸⁵Speaking “with chutzpah” to Torah scholars, or to someone more learned than himself is included in עַזּוּת מֵצַח.

(418) And for all of these, God of pardon,

(419) pardon us, forgive us,

(420) grant us atonement.

(421) For the sin we committed before You

(422) by throwing off the yoke [of heaven].⁸⁶Rejecting an obligation to fulfill even a single commandment. Also included is shirking a religious obligation which must then be assumed by someone else.—Siddur HaGra

(423) And for the sin we committed before You

(424) in passing judgment.⁸⁷This includes a “Dayan,” a judge who does not render correct decisions, and it also includes not giving someone the benefit of the doubt.—Siddur HaGra