The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival

Marcia Falk

1996

Blessing Before the Meal

Let us bless the source of life
that brings forth bread from the earth.
N’vareykh et eyn haḥayim
hamotzi’ah léḥem min ha’áretz.

Sh’ma: Communal Declaration of Faith

Hear, O Israel—
The divine abounds everywhere
and dwells in everything;
the many are One.
Loving life
and its mysterious source
with all our heart
and all our spirit,
all…
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Creator Bio

Marcia Falk

b. 1946

Marcia Falk was born in New York City. Falk is a poet, translator, liturgist, and artist who holds a doctorate in English from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University. Now associated with the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, Falk taught Hebrew and English literature and creative writing at several universities. Her translations include volumes of poems by Yiddish poet Malka Heifetz Tussman and Hebrew poet Zelda.

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