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Haven on Earth
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Haven on Earth
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To become cooperative in space and time and soul. Purifying the ritual cycle to feed, clothe, to house the cooperative melody.
Joining hands and rejoining hands again as do feet with foot stepping.
Our Soliloquy with Our Silhouette, to Throne is to decorate a canopy to covenant And Rhythmic Prayer.
'RABBI HIYYA BEN ABBA SAID IN THE NAME OF RABBI YOCHANAN: BECAUSE SCRIPTURE SAYS, 'BUT I WILL BE HALLOWED AMONG THE CHILDREN OF YISRAEL': EVERY ACT OF SANCTIFICATION REQUIRES NOT LESS THAN TEN.' MEGILLA 23B.
'RABBI NACHMAN SAID: HUNA BEN NATAN SAID TO ME: A TANNA TAUGHT: FROM WHERE DO WE LEARN THAT THE BENEDICTION OF THE BRIDEGROOMS HAS TO BE SAID IN THE PRESENCE OF TEN? BECAUSE IT IS SAID [IN THE STORY OF RUTH, WHEN BOAZ WAS TO MARRY WITH HER]: 'AND HE TOOK TEN ELDERS OF THE CITY, AND SAID, 'SIT YE DOWN HERE'' . . . OUR RABBIS TAUGHT: THE BLESSINGS OF BRIDEGROOMS IS SAID IN THE PRESENCE OF TEN ALL THE SEVEN DAYS [FOLLOWING THE MARRIAGE]. RAV YEHUDAH SAID: AND THAT IS ONLY IF NEW FACES ARE PRESENT.
WHAT DOES ONE SAY [WHEN BLESSING]? RAV YEHUDAH SAID:
'BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD OUR G~D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO HAS CREATED EVERYTHING FOR HIS GLORY',THEN '[BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD OUR G~D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE], WHO FASHIONED THE MAN',
THEN '[BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD OUR G~D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE], WHO FASHIONED THE MAN IN HIS IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF HIS LIKENESS AND PREPARED UNTO HIM OUT OF ITS OWNSELF A BUILDING FOR ETERNITY. BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD, WHO FASHIONED THE MAN',
THEN 'MAY THE BARREN GREATLY REJOICE AND EXULT WHEN HER CHILDREN WILL BE GATHERED B'TOCH'HAH - IN THE MIDST OF HER, IN JOY. BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD, WHO MAKETH TZIYYON JOYFUL THROUGH HER CHILDREN',
THEN 'MAYST THOU MAKE THE LOVED COMPANIONS GREATLY TO REJOICE, EVEN AS OF OLD THOU DIDST GLADDEN THY CREATURE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD, WHO MAKETH BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE TO REJOICE',
THEN 'BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD OUR G~D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO HAS CREATED JOY AND GLADNESS, BRIDEGROOM AND BRIDE, REJOICING, SONG, MIRTH, AND DELIGHT, LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD, AND PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP. SPEEDILY, O L~RD OUR G~D, MAY THERE BE HEARD IN THE CITIES OF YEHUDAH AND IN THE COURTYARDS OF YERUSHALAYIM: THE VOICE OF JOY AND THE VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM AND THE VOICE OF THE BRIDE, THE VOICE OF THE SINGING OF BRIDEGROOMS FROM THEIR CANOPIES AND OF YOUTHS FROM THEIR FEASTS OF SONG. BLESSED ART THOU, O L~RD, WHO MAKETH THE BRIDEGROOM TO REJOICE WITH THE BRIDE.' KETUBOT 7B. END.