L'chah Dodi

Stanza 1:

All words and thoughts merge as the Sabbath arrives,

Stanza 2:

Now as ever the nexus of creation.

Stanza 3:

Debased and dumbfounded for so many generations,

Stanza 4:

Rise now and recoup your inheritance,

Stanza 5:

Emerge into the eternal light.

Stanza 6:

Where once we wandered in poverty,

Stanza 7:

Our oppressors will sink beneath us.

Stanza 8:

Right and left rejoicing comes.

Stanza 9:

Arrive where all come in happiness,

Chorus:

Meet your most responsive, beneficent self.