... us in a variety of situations, including when sick and at funerals. A different psalm is recited each day of the week to add to our prayer and experience of the flow of the week, and they are used to inspire us. Yet one area where psalms have not been traditionally used is in the area of social...

...HERBERT J. LEVINE Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Illustration by Autumn Evelyn Illustration by Autumn Evelyn Blessed are you, world—you appear before me each day as problems to solve and living visions to praise. T hese verses of a contemporary psalm came to me...

...Pamela Greenberg Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Speaking Our Pain: Anguish, Comfort, and Wonder in the Psalms by Pamela Greenberg he psalms, that body of biblical literature so beautiful...

... by Powell Sara R. , Pluto Press , 2008 The Political Economy of Media , McChesney Robert W. , Monthly Review Press , 2008 Mindful Economics , Magnuson Joel , Seven Stories Press , 2008 Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy , Glazer Miriyam , Aviv Press 2008...

..., the symbol within the Christian drama of the essential unity of complete devastation with the hope for newness and repair. When on the cross Jesus cries out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” he is not uttering a general cry of abandonment. Rather, he cries out to God in the language of the Psalms...

... way to try to understand the intent of words in the Bible is to look at how those same words are used in other context. The Hebrew verb lirdot , to have dominion, aside from appearing in the creation story, also appears in one of the psalms. This particular psalm is Psalm 72, composed...

... by John to signal his larger meaning, lest we miss it. With this inserted comment John is alluding to Psalm 69:19–21: 19 You know the insults I receive, And my shame and dishonor; My foes are all known to you. 20 Insults have broken my heart, So that I am in despair. I looked for pity...

... of the Hebrew Bible. Black church leaders are the main exception to this rule. As a result, many churchgoers know little of the Hebrew Bible beyond a few beloved psalms, the exploits of legendary heroes, and, alas, their certainty that it testifies to “a wrathful God.” Well-traveled parishioners who have had...

... “Poetic or Prophetic character” that helps us move beyond “the same dull round over again.” At exalted moments we may inhabit heaven, but mostly we live on “the earth God hath given to humans” (Psalm 115:16). Care for the earth, the ground of our subsistence, is our daily round, our regular beat, our...

..., not simply meditation and allusion. These poems are less like riddles, more like diaristic notations recording both intimate feelings and external happenings. “Psalm,” for example, though its title points to a biblical antecedent, reads like personal poem with a real rather than a narrative “I;” a self...

... of this comes from Psalm 42. Kushner’s understanding of the first verse in Hebrew is: “As the deer craves the riverbed, so my soul craves you, God.” But an English translation removes the word afikei (edge), which follows “water” in the Hebrew version. Kushner says this psalm is about the river-bank...

... , 2014 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 poetry and prayer have been tangled up from the start. For most cultures, the earliest extant poetry is a mixture of psalms and spells: language intended to do something supernatural, to bring forth blessings or curses, bridging the divide...

... about anything. one third of the Psalms are psalms of‘lament,” these have been the least used by Catholic and Protestant liturgies. We think, perhaps, they express sinftrl anger or negativity, when grief...

... the worship of God as Jews worshiped God. There were people in Rome who considered themselves God fearers. There are clear references in the Psalms to Jews inviting those who fear the Lord...

... and transform them into joyfulness. As David wrote in Psalms, “You turned my grieving into dance” (30:12). When Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov heard that his friend the Rebbe of Berditchev had become ill, he repeatedly muttered his friend’s name over and over again and prayed for his recovery...

... te rrib lechadgadya m achine o f Je w is h h istory. You gave us psalm s o f every day— o f th e b u ild e r w ho chea ted you, o f th e plum s you b ro u g h t hom e as a sw...

... Psalm 92:13) by Jacqueline Osherow There I was at the literal But then we got distracted by a shock depths of the earth: nothing of green: row after row after row but rock, saltwater, salt...

... the third passage comes from the very end phrase of Psalm 150, the last psalm. It affirms that every breath praises, blesses, the God who is the Breath of Life. It uses one of the ancient names of God— Yah , as in Hallelu-Yah —the name that has the initial Y and the ending H of the YHWH name...

... in trillions of ways, you get a human texts as “How great are Your being with likes, dislikes, hopes, fears, works, O Eternal,” (Psalm 92:6) or and more. Using this model, I am de­ “who orders the stars in their ap­...