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First Blessing before Shema

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Ashkenaz
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First Blessing before Shema

O God, master of all creation/blessed by the mouth of every soul/whose grandeur and wonder existed before anything/knowledge and understanding surround his splendor. Who rides upon the holy chayos/and in glorious beauty upon the Chariot/merit and uprightness before his throne/charity and mercy filled with his glory. Good are the lamps which our god created/he made them with knowledge and understanding and skill/power and strength he gave to them/to rule in the vicinity of the Earth. Filled with shine and imbued with rays/lovely their shine throughout the world/happy in their rising and joyous in their setting/doing in awe the will of their creator. Wonder and glory they give to his name/joy and celebration to the stature of his kingship/He called out to the sun, and it shone with light/He saw, and fixed the shape of the moon. All the heavenly host gives him praise/ the seraphs and the ophans, wonder and grandeur.

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