The Kedushah

(12) Then a spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD from His place’.

For Kedushah there are those who say that one should only answer only "Kadosh" and "Baruch" but not "Yimloch" because this is not the main part of Kedushah. And this is taught in a Tosefta. And there are those who say also "Yimloch. And there is no decree on this, and one may do whatever s/he desires. However, it is clear that "Nekadesh" or "Nakdishcha" or "Keter" one should not say at all, rather one should begin from Kadosh. And also on Shabbos and Yom Tov that you add "Az B'Kol" and "Mimkomcha" and in Mussaf "Kivodo Maleh Olam", "Mimkomo" and "Shema Yisrael" one should not answer because these are not the main part of Kedushah. Although "Shema Yisrael" it appears to me that one should answer, since everyone is accpeting the yoke of heaven upon them. And one should answer until "Echad."

(11) These are blessings at which we bow down: the first blessing [of the Amidah], in the beginning and at the end, and in [the paragraph of] Modim, in the beginning and at the end. And as for one who bows down at every single blessing [of the Amidah], we teach that person not to bow down [on them]. We do not answer together with the leader. Rabbi Yehudah would answer together with the leader: Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh Hashem Tzevaot Melo Kol Haaretz Kevodo (Isaiah 6:3) and Baruch Kevod Hashem Mimkomo (Ezekiel 3:12).

The congregation does not say "Nakdishecha" with the leader rather they are quiet and they pay attention to what the leader is saying until s/he gets to Kedushah and the congregation says "Kadosh" with the leader.

There are those who are lenient that one is able to say it (Nekadesh) with the leader, but the right minhag is like what the Shulchan Aruch wrote because the Achronim agreed with him and such was the minhag of the Gra and everywhere the minhag in our days that the congregation says also Nekadesh.

It is good to put your feet together at the time that you say Kedushah with the leader. Ramah: And there are those that lift up their eye to the heavens at the moment that they recite Kedushah and they shake their bodies and lift up from the ground.

(1) In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and God's train filled the temple. (2) Above God stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. (3) And one called unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full God's glory. (4) And the posts of the door were moved by the calling voice and the house was filled with smoke. (5) Then I said: Woe is me! for I am undone; Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts. (6) Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken off the altar with tongs; (7) and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Now that this has touched your lips your iniquity is taken away and your sin expiated. (8) And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, And who will go for us? Then I said: ‘Here am I; send me.’

(1) Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. (2) In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, (3) the word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. (4) And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the midst thereof as the color of electrum, out of the midst of the fire. (5) And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. (6) And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. (7) And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass. (8) And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and as for the faces and wings of them four, (9) their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. (10) As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. (11) Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. (12) And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went. (13) As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like coals of fire, burning like the appearance of torches; it flashed up and down among the living creatures; and there was brightness to the fire, and out of the fire went forth lightning. (14) And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. (15) Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel at the bottom hard by the living creatures, at the four faces thereof. (16) The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the color of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. (17) When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not when they went. (18) As for their rings, they were high and they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about. (19) And when the living creatures went, the wheels went hard by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the bottom, the wheels were lifted up. (20) Wherever the spirit was to go, so they went; and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. (21) When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. (22) And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like the color of the terrible ice, stretched forth over their heads above. (23) And under the firmament were their wings conformable the one to the other; this one of them had two which covered, and that one of them had two which covered, their bodies. (24) And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host; when they stood, they let down their wings. (25) For, when there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads, as they stood, they let down their wings. (26) And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. (27) And I saw as the color of electrum, as the appearance of fire round about enclosing it, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. (28) As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

(1) Hallelujah. Praise the LORD, O my soul. (2) I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being. (3) Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. (4) His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; In that very day his thoughts perish. (5) Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, (6) Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever; (7) Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth bread to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners; (8) The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; The LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; The LORD loveth the righteous; (9) The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; But the way of the wicked He maketh crooked. (10) The LORD will reign for ever, Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Hallelujah.