Hear O Israel (Vol. 1)

Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, who hast sanctified us by Thy Commandments, and has commanded us to read the Hallel.

Return unto thy rest, 0 my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with Thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling. I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I kept my faith in G-d even when I spake, I am greatly afflicted; even when I said in my haste, all men are liars.

Lo, I am about to fulfill the affirmative precept of the counting of the Omer, as it is written in the Torah, and ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the day of rest, from the day that ye brought the Omer of the wave-offering, seven complete weeks they shall be; until the morrow of the seventh week shall ye number fifty days.

For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law. It is a tree of life to them that grasp it, and of them that uphold it every one is rendered happy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Turn thou us unto Thee, 0 Lord, and we shall return: Renew our days as of old.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for G-d is with us. And even to your old age I am He; and ever to hoar hair will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Thou knowest the mysteries of the Universe and the hidden secrets of all living. Thou searchest all the innermost recesses and triest the reins and the heart. Naught is hidden from Thee, neither is anything concealed from Thine eyes. May it therefore be Thy will, 0 Lord our G-d and G-d o*f our fathers, to forgive us all our sins, to pardon us all our ininuities, and to grant us atonement for all our transgressions.