Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH
Eloheinu
melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to.
Baruch
atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH,
the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of
the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)
Isa 42:18 “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, and
see.
Isa 42:19 “Who is blind but My servant, or deaf as
My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as servant
of יהוה?
Isa 42:20 “You see much, but do not guard; ears are
open, but do not hear.”
Isa 42:21 It has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness, to
make the Torah great and esteemed.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and
plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison
houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no
one to say, “Restore!” (‘’hashav’’ to return)
Isa
42:23 Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the
time to come?
‘’But the Torah, in and of itself, is unable to overcome
sin in the life of any individual—it simply has no reforming power with in it.
The power of the Torah is that which the Spirit supplies as He writes it upon
the heart.’’