My soul awakens,
Within the minor key.
Rapt notes coaxing,
The Blessed’s
Precision knife’s edge.
Excise all sullied offerings,
Those blinding passions reoccurring,
On Hashem’s bloodless,
Yet not painless,
Altar.
Then cover my nakedness,
Draped in a garment of consecration,
That I may arise worthy, in concert
With those circumcised of heart,
And on my lips,
In sanctification,
A renewed and Holy song.
“Bar’chi nafshi et Adonai
V’chol k’ravai
Et sheim kod’sho.”*
*”My soul praises you, Adonai, [God], and all of my being praises your holy essence.” Psalms.103:1, as translated in SiddurLit. Order of prayers. The prayer book. Eit Ratzon, JosephJacob's eldest son by his beloved wife, Rachel. Joseph, the dreamer, was his father's favorite and nearly murdered by his brothers. Sold into slavery, he became viceroy of Egypt where he ultimately saves the Egyptians and also his own family from starvation. His Hebrew name is Yosef/ G. Rosenstein, 2010.
