Tiferet she’be’Sukkot Kabbalat Shabbat with Shir Yaakov

Sukkahfest 5771/2010 at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

Velo hayah chatzer

Bi’rushalayim ‫ולא היה חצר בירושלים‬
She’aynah me’irah ‫שאנה מאירה מאור בית השואבה‬
Me’or beit ha’sho’evah
There wasn’t a courtyard in Jerusalem that wasn’t illuminated by the light of the water-drawing ceremony.
-Mishna Sukkot 5:3

Higaleh (galeh galeh) na...

Uf’ros (uf’ros) chavivi alai
Et sukkat (sukkat) shelo’me’cha
Please reveal and spread over me, Beloved, a sukkah of your peace.
-from Yedid Nefesh by R’ Elazar Azikri

Yachid ge’eh
Le’amcha f’nei
Zochrei (zochrei zochrei) kedusha’techa
Exalted Unity, face your people, rememberers of your Holiness.
-from Ana B’choach by R’ Nechuniah ben Hakana

Barchu, Dear One

Shechinah, Holy Name
When I call on the light of my soul, I come home
-lyrics and music by Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel

Eem ani kan, ha’kol kan

Ha’kol kan, eem ani kan ‫אם אני כאן הכל כאן‬
Eem ayni kan, mi kan ‫אם איני כאן מי כאן‬
Mi chamocha b’Elohim HAVAYAH ‫מי כמוך אלקים ײ‬
Eem ayni kan, mi kan ...‫מי כמוך‬
Mi kamocha, ay yai yai...
If I am there, Everything is there. If I am not there, Who is there.
Who is like you amongst the divinities, HAVAYAH? Who is like You....
-from the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sukkot, and Exodus 15

Va’hashevota el levavcha ‫והשבת אל לבבך‬

Ki HAVAYAH hu haELOHIM ‫כי ײ הוא האלקים‬
“[...]and it will return to your heart that (transcendent) YHVH is (immanent) ELOHIM.”
-from Deuteronomy 4:39 and found in the Aleynu prayer
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