Simon & Garfunkel Shabbat · Closing: Adon Olam to Scarborough Fair . Simon & Garfunkel Shabbat, 5/29/20 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 2 Kavannah for Our Service From Flowers

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Congregation Etz Chayim

Palo Alto, CA

Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky

Simon & Garfunkel Shabbat An Etz Chayim Fifth Friday SHABBAT SERVICE

Kabbalat Shabbat

• I Am a Rock • L’chu N’ran’nah • Shiru l’Adonai • 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)

L’Cha Dodi (to Feelin’ Groovy) Bar’chu

• Creation: So Long Frank Lloyd Wright • Revelation: The Sound of Silence

Sh’ma & v’Ahavta

• Redemption: The Boxer

Hashkiveynu / Lay Us Down: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Amidah (“Avodah”/Service) • Avot v’Imahot: Under African Skies • G’vurot: Slip Slidin’ Away • K’dushat haShem: Kathy’s Song + My Little Town • K’dushat Shabbat: How Can You Live in the

Northeast? • R’Tzeih: Silent Eyes • Shalom: Peace Like a River

Healing Prayer: Homeward Bound

Aleynu Mourners’ Kaddish: April Come Birchot Hamishpachah / Parents Bless their Children: Mother and Child Reunion, Father and Daughter

Closing: Adon Olam to Scarborough Fair


Kavannah for Our Service From Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall, by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: ©Universal Music Publishing Group) Through the corridors of sleep So I'll continue to continue to pretend Past shadows dark and deep My life will never end My mind dances and leaps in confusion And flowers never bend I don't know what is real With the rainfall I can't touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion The mirror on my wall So I'll continue to continue to pretend Casts an image dark and small My life will never end But I'm not sure at all it's my reflection And flowers never bend I am blinded by the light With the rainfall Of God and truth and right And I wander in the night without direction Etz Chayim’s first virtual Fifth Friday Shabbat service features 5 songs and 13 song lyrics presented as poems by Simon & Garfunkel. These selections have a unique poignancy for this time in which we are beginning to emerge from our shelter-at-home isolation on the road toward a renewal of our in-person social and communal lives. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are known for their deep and introspective lyrics, creative rhythms, and stunning harmonies. Art Garfunkel is of Romanian Jewish descent. His singing career began as a seven-year-old in his family’s Queens, NY synagogue. While he did not love Hebrew, he loved singing with the rabbi on Saturday mornings and mimicking the sound of Hebrew prayers. In a 2015 interview with The Times of Israel he referred to his voice as a “gift from G0d.” Paul Simon was descended from Eastern European Jews and named after Pinkas Seeman, his grandfather, who was a tailor from Ukraine. While attending Queens College, Simon was president of their chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, an international Jewish fraternity. The emotional arc of this service begins in isolation with a spare version of I Am a Rock, shifts into the joy of Kabbalat Shabbat so that we are Feelin’ Groovy together, and returns to this theme as the tune for L’Cha Dodi. We will utilize a trio of S&G’s best known and most evocative songs within the S’hma service (The Sound of Silence, The Boxer, and Bridge Over Troubled Waters. For the Amidah we offer a series of lyrics by these artists as reflective readings. The service will conclude with Adon Olam sung to the tune of Scarborough Fair, a song that interweaves longing for a festive celebration with memories of special times.

This Simon & Garfunkel Fifth Friday Shabbat Service was made possible by the collective efforts of Etz Chayim congregants. Special thanks to Naomi Temes and Ken Abrams who served as co-coordinators with Naomi focusing on musical direction and Ken on production of the pre-recorded musical and vocal accompaniment. Melissa Dinwiddie and Mitch Slomiak prepared this special siddur. The kavannot (intentions) were written by Mitch Slomiak with guidance from Rabbi Chaim. Ron Shipper made it all work in a Zoom virtual environment and supported every facet of the service. ‘Yasher koach’ to all the congregants who participated in leading songs, whether virtually or in real-time.


Kabbalat Shabbat Kavannah During Kabbalat Shabbat we experience an energetic shift, transitioning from our individual workaday lives to a deeply restful “Palace in Time” marked by our communal gathering. For this particular communal gathering we near the end of our period of isolating ourselves from one another and prepare to gradually reintegrate from the virtual to the physical experience of community. Within this Kabbalat Shabbat we will transition from the challenges of isolation to the joyfulness of full-throated community.

I Am a Rock excerpts, by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: ©Universal Music Publishing Group) A winter's day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow I am a rock I am an island I've built walls A fortress deep and mighty That none may penetrate I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain It's laughter and it's loving I disdain I am a rock I am an island I have my books And my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor Hiding in my room, safe within my womb I touch no one and no one touches me I am a rock I am an island And a rock feels no pain And an island never cries


L'chu N'ran'nah + Shiru lAd0nay


The 59th Street Bridge Song (aka Feelin’ Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: ©Universal Music Publishing Group) Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning last Just kicking down the cobblestones Looking for fun and feeling groovy Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy Hello lamppost, what'cha knowing I've come to watch your flowers growin' Ain't you got no rhymes for me? Doo-ait-n-doo-doo, feeling groovy Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep Let the morningtime drop all its petals on me Life, I love you, all is groovy


L'cha Dodi (sung to the tune of The 59th Street Bridge Song, aka Feelin’ Groovy) (Note: This means that a beat 1 or 3 occurs during a rest: - . We don’t sing on that beat.)

REFRAIN: L’chah dodi li - krat kallah, Let's go greet the Bride my friend, p’ney Shabbat n’ - kab’lah. Let's go meet Shabbat once again. Shamor v’zachor b’dibbur echad Guard and remember in one Divine Word - Hishmi’anu El ham’yuchad Our Unique G0d caused us to hear

Ad0nay echad ush’mo echad Adonay is One and G0d's Name is One - L’Shem ul’tiferet v’lit’hilah. Wow! the fame and the beauty and praise!

REPEAT REFRAIN Likrat Shabbat l’chu v’nel’cha Let’s get up and go to welcome Shabbat - Ki hi m’kor hab’rachah. For She is the source of blessing.

Merosh mikedem n’suchah Poured forth, primeval, preceding all – - Sof ma’aseh, b’machashavah t’chilah. Last created, conceived first.

REPEAT REFRAIN

We rise and face west towards where the sunset ushers in Shabbat Bo’i v’shalom ateret ba’lah Come in peace, Crown of your Husband, – Gam b’simchah uv’tzoholah Come in joy and in song and in dance. Toch emuney am s’gulah. Among the faithful ones of your people - ↓Bo’i ↑challah — ↓Bo’i ↑challah! Come in, Bride! Come in, Bride!

REPEAT REFRAIN


Bar'chu

CREATION

So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, excerpts, by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group) Architects may come and Architects may go and Never change Y0ur point of view When I run dry I stop awhile and think of Y0u


REVELATION

Kavannah While The Sound of Silence will certainly evoke the loneliness of sheltering in place, the lyrics take us on a journey of revelation. “Hear my words that I might teach you.…The words of the prophets are written on the subway halls and tenement halls.” The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publishing Group) Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence "Fools," said I, "You do not know Silence, like a cancer, grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells, of silence (continued on next page)


And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls" And whispered in the sounds of silence


SH'MA

You may remain seated or stand, as is your custom


REDEMPTION

Kavannah This emotionally evocative song can be viewed as the journey of a man crying out “in his anger and his shame” as he opens himself to the possibility of redemption. Perhaps it is also a metaphor for an entire people: “And the Lord said ‘I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their suffering.’” (JPS Tanach, Exodus 3:7) Note that the chorus of this song (“Lie la lie…”) sounds oh, so much like a traditional niggun. The Boxer by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest, lie la lie, la la When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy In the company of strangers In the quiet of the railway station Running scared, Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters Where the ragged people go Looking for the places Only they would know Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores On Seventh Avenue I do declare There were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie (continued on next page)


Then I'm laying out my winter clothes And wishing I was gone Going home Where the New York City winters Aren't bleeding me Leading me Going home In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of ev'ry glove that laid him down Or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" But the fighter still remains, mmm mmm Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie

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The Hatimah (Signature Ending) ofthe Traditional G'ulah / Redemption Blessing

Umalchuto

b'ratzon kibblu aleyhem.

Mosheh uMiryam uvney Yisra'Eil

l'cha anu shirah,

b'simchah rabah,

v'am'ru chulam:

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Y0ur S0vereignty

they willingly accepted over themselves.

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answered Y0u in poetry,

in great joy,

and all said:

Mi chamocha

ba'eilim Ad0nay!?

Mi kamochah,

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"Wh0 is like Y0u

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Who is like Y0u,

cloaked in the holy

of awe-provoked praises,

unique in action!?" Exodus 15:11

Malchut'cha ra'u vanecha

bokeia yam lifney

Mosheh uMiryam.

"Zeh Eili," anu v'amru:

"Ad0nay yimloch l'0lam va'ed!"

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hew the sea before

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"This is my G0d!" they answered, saying:

"Ad0nay reigns infinitely and for ever!" Ex 15:18

v'Ne'emar:

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ug'alo miyyad chazak mimmennu."

Baruch Atah, Ad0nay,

Ga'al Yisra'Eil.

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Blessed Y0u, Ad0nay,

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59 Intro Kabbalat Shabbat Ma'ariv [Sh'ma service Amidah Aleynu Kaddish] Conclusion Commentary Songs/Parables


Hashkiveynu / Lay Us Down

Kavannah “Though the entire World is a narrow bridge, the main thing is not to fear at all.” –Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all, all I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down When you're down and out When you're on the street When evening falls so hard I will comfort you I'll take your part, oh, when darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind Like a bridge over troubled water I will ease your mind


AMIDAH

Kavannah We will recite the traditional opening prayer and then you are invited to reflect upon the magnificent lyrics from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel that replaces each of the traditional Amidah sections. How does each of these poems convey the feeling tone of our ancestral prayers?

Avoteynu v’Imoteynu (G0d of Our Ancestors) Under African Skies excerpts, by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) This is the story of how we begin to remember This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein After the dream of falling and calling your name out These are the roots of rhythm And the roots of rhythm remain Joseph's face was black as night The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes His path was marked By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere And he walked his days Under African skies


G’Vurot (G0d’s Powers) Slip Slidin’ Away excerpts, by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) God only knows God makes his plan The information's unavailable To the mortal man We work our jobs Collect our pay Believe we're gliding down the highway When in fact we're slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away

K’dushat Hashem (G0d’s Holiness) Kathy’s Song excerpts, by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) And a song I was writing is left undone I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain to rhyme And so you see I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is Y0u And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain There but for the grace of Y0u go I My Little Town excerpts, by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) In my little town I grew up believing G0d keeps his eye on us all And he used to lean upon me As I pledged allegiance to the wall


K’dushat Hayom (The Holy Day) How Can You Live in the Northeast? (excerpts) by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Paul Simon Music) We heard the fireworks. Rushed out to watch the sky. Happy go lucky. Fourth of July. How can you live in the Northeast? How can you live in the South? How can you build on the banks of a river When the flood water pours from the mouth? How can you be a Christian? How can you be a Jew? How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu? How can you? Weak as the winter sun, We enter life on earth. Names and religion come Just after date of birth. Then everybody gets a tongue to speak, And everyone hears an inner voice. A day at the end of the week To wonder and rejoice. If the answer is infinite light, Why do we sleep in the dark?


R’Tzeih (Accept Our Prayer) Silent Eyes by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) Silent eyes Watching Jerusalem Make her bed of stones Silent eyes No one will comfort her Jerusalem Weeps alone She is sorrow Sorrow She burns like a flame And she calls my name Silent eyes Burning In the desert sun Halfway to Jerusalem And we shall all be called as witnesses Each and every one To stand before the eyes of G0d And speak what was done


Modim (Thanks)

Grateful excerpt, by Art Garfunkel (songwriters: Judith Abbott / Bruce Dunstan / Paul Greco / Darren Hamer / Nigel Hunter / Alice Nutter / Louise Watts / Allen Whalley; lyrics ©Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC) I've got a roof over my head I've got a warm place to sleep Some nights I lie awake counting gifts Instead of counting sheep I've got a heart that can hold love I've got a mind that can think There may be times when I lose the light And let my spirits sink But I can't stay depressed When I remember how I'm blessed Grateful, grateful Truly grateful I am Grateful, grateful Truly blessed And duly grateful In a city of strangers I got a family of friends No matter what rocks and brambles fill the way I know that they will stay until the end I feel a hand holding my hand It's not a hand you can see But on the road to the promised land This hand will shepherd me Through delight and despair Holding tight and always there Grateful, grateful Truly grateful I am Truly blessed And duly grateful.


Shalom (Peace)

Peace Like a River excerpts, by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics: © Universal Music Publish Group) Peace like a river ran through the city’ Long past the midnight curfew We sat starry-eyed We were satisfied… Four in the morning I woke up from out of my dreams Nowhere to go but back to sleep But I’m reconciled


A Prayer for Healing

Kavannah While this song does not touch upon physical ailments, the feeling tone is that of spiritual healing. We return home to refresh, recharge, shake off the dust and disappointments from our journeys. And, right now, home is where we have sheltered in place and, G0d willing, avoided pandemic-induced illness. May this time help us re-appreciate the place we call “home.” Homeward Bound by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group) I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket to my destination On a tour of one-night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one-man band Chorus:

Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home where my thought's escapin' Home where my music's playin' Home where my love lies waitin' Silently for me

Every day's an endless stream Of cigarettes and magazines And each town looks the same to me The movies and the factories And every stranger's face I see Reminds me that I long to be

(Chorus) Tonight I'll sing my songs again I'll play the game and pretend But all my words come back to me In shades of mediocrity Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me

(Chorus) Silently for me


Emet Malkeinu, efes zulato!

Kakatuv b'Torato:

V'yada'ta hayom,

vahashevota el l'vavecha,

ki Ad0nay hu haEil0him

bashamayim mima'al,

v'al ha'aretz mitacha!

eyn od!

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Our true M0narch, incomparable!

As it is written in Y0ur Torah:

"Know today,

bring it to your awareness,

that Ad0nay is G0d

out to the ends of Space and Time,

and here on earth!

None other!" Deuteronomy 4:39

V'ne'emar: v'hayah Ad0nay

l'Melech al kol ha'aretz.

Bayom hahu

yih'yeh Ad0nay echad

ush'mo echad!

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And it is said: "Ad0nay will be

Universal M0narch.

On that day

Ad0nay will be 0ne

and G0d's NAME will be 0ne!" Zechariah 14:9

Aleynu / The Adoration

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Aleynu l'shabeiach la'Ad0n hakol,

lateit g'dulah

l'yotzeir b'reshit,

shelo asanu

k'goyyey ha'aratzot,

v'lo samanu

k'mishp'chot ha'adamah,

shelo sam chelkeinu kahem,

v'goraleinu k'chol hamonam.

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It is our destiny to laud the All-Supreme,

to recognize the

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nor assign us

as other families of the earth,

Wh0 did not assign our lot as theirs,

nor our fate as that of their multitudes.

!Va'anachnu kor'im,

umishtachavim, umodim

"lifney Melech

malchey ham'lachim,

haKadosh Baruch Hu,

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prostrate ourselves," and thank Esther 3:2

"the Ruler

of the rulers of rulers,

the Holy 0ne of blessing,

SheHu noteh shamayim

v'yoseid aretz,

umoshav y'karo

bashamayim mimma'al

ush'chinat uzzo

b'govhey m'romim.

Hu Eil0heynu, eyn od!

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Wh0 "unfurled heaven and

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heaven's expanse

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That 0ne is our G0d! None other!


Mourners’ Kaddish Introductory Prayer

Kavannah We reflect upon this poignant poem, evoking cycles of life and death, before reciting Mourner’s Kaddish. April Come by Simon & Garfunkel (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group) April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June she'll change her tune In restless walks she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I remember A love once new has now grown old



Birchot Hamishpachah / Parents’ Blessing

Kavannah Paul Simon has written two songs that focus on parenthood, one maternal and the other paternal. We include excerpts from each as reflections upon the blessings and challenges of parenthood. Mother and Child Reunion excerpts, by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group) Oh, little darling of mine I can't for the life of me Remember a sadder day I know they say let it be But it just don't work out that way And the course of a lifetime runs Over and over again No, I would not give you false hope (no) On this strange and mournful day But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away


Birchot Hamishpachah / Parents’ Blessing (continued)

Father and Daughter excerpts, by Paul Simon (Songwriters: Paul Simon | lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group) If you ever awake In the mirror of a bad dream And for a fraction of a second, You can't remember where you are Just open your window And follow your memories Upstream To the meadow in the mountain Where we counted every falling star I believe the light that shines on you Will shine on you forever And though I can't guarantee there's nothing scary Hidin' under your bed I'm gonna Stand guard Like the postcard Of the golden retriever And never leave 'Til I leave you With a sweet dream in your head… I'm gonna watch you shine Gonna watch you grow Gonna paint a sign So you always know As long as one and one is two There could never be a father [parent] Love his [their] daughter [child] more than I love you.


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יברכל וישמרכל’ יי יאר ויחנכל אלכל פניו’ יי ישא שלום לכל םויש אלכל פניו’ יי

Y’sim-kholElohimk’Sarah,Rivkah,Rakhel,Leah,Ephraimu’Menasheh.

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YisaAdonaypanave-le-kholva-ya-seml’kholshalomMayGodmakeyoulikeSarah,Rebecca,Rachel,Leah,EphraimandMenashe.MaytheHolyOneblessyouandkeepyou.MaytheHolyOneshinelightuponyouandbegracioustoyou.MaytheHolyOneturntowardsyouandgiveyoupeace.


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.i !zI !e §B i !gEx m !r §e.`xi ! Ÿl §e i !l dedi

The Universe's 2wner, who reigned�

before the formation of any living thing.�

Once all was made, as G0d ordained,�G0d

was invoked as "SRvereign."

Into YRur "hand" I entrust my spirit,�while

I sleep, as while I am awake.

And along with my spirit, my body.�G0d

is with me; I will not fear.

Depiction of Scarborough Fair (artist unknown)

Shabbat Shalom!

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Simon & Garfunkel Shabbat · Closing: Adon Olam to Scarborough Fair . Simon & Garfunkel Shabbat, 5/29/20 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 2 Kavannah for Our Service From Flowers