Maariv

ma-ariv

מעריב

Israeli: ' marks a reduced vowel that Israeli speech drops (b'rachah); when the vowel is pronounced it is written e (lefanecha). - separates syllables that would otherwise run together.

How to read the transliterations

Hebrew

הֵאִירוּ בְּרָקָיו תֵּבֵל, רָאֲתָה וַתָּחֵל הָאָרֶץ: הָרִים כַּדּוֹנַג נָמַסּוּ
מִלִּפְנֵי יְהֹוָה, מִלִּפְנֵי אֲדוֹן כָּל־הָאָרֶץ: הִגִּידוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם צִדְקוֹ,
וְרָאוּ כָּל־הָעַמִּים כְּבוֹדוֹ: יֵבֹשׁוּ כָּל־עֹבְדֵי פֶסֶל הַמִּתְהַלְלִים
בָּאֱלִילִים, הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ־לוֹ כָּל־אֱלֹהִים: שָׁמְעָה וַתִּשְׂמַח צִיּוֹן,
וַתָּגֵלְנָה בְּנוֹת יְהוּדָה, לְמַעַן מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ יְהֹוָה: כִּי־אַתָּה יְהֹוָה
עֶלְיוֹן עַל־כָּל־הָאָרֶץ, מְאֹד נַעֲלֵיתָ עַל־כָּל־אֱלֹהִים: אֹהֲבֵי יְהֹוָה
שִׂנְאוּ רָע, שֹׁמֵר נַפְשׁוֹת חֲסִידָיו, מִיַּד רְשָׁעִים יַצִּילֵם: אוֹר
זָרֻעַ לַצַּדִּיק, וּלְיִשְׁרֵי־לֵב שִׂמְחָה: שִׂמְחוּ צַדִּיקִים בַּיהֹוָה, וְהוֹדוּ
לְזֵכֶר קָדְשׁוֹ:

Israeli

he-iru b'rakav tevel, ra-atah vatachel ha-aretz: harim kadonag namasu
milifnei Adonai, milifnei adon kol-ha-aretz: higidu hashamayim tzidko,
verau kol-ha-amim k'vodo: yevoshu kol-ovdei fesel hamithalelim
ba-elilim, hishtachavu-lo kol-elohim: shame-ah vatismach Tziyon,
vatagelenah b'not Yehudah, lema-an mishpatecha Adonai: ki-atah Adonai
Elyon al-kol-ha-aretz, me-od na-aleita al-kol-elohim: ohavei Adonai
sinu ra, shomer nafshot chasidav, miyad resha-im yatzilem: or
zarua latzadik, uleyishrei-lev simchah: simchu tzadikim badonai, vehodu
lezecher kodsho:

Ps. 98

Hebrew

מִזְמוֹר, שִׁירוּ לַיהֹוָה שִׁיר חָדָשׁ כִּי־נִפְלָאוֹת עָשָׂה, הוֹשִׁיעָה־לּוֹ
יְמִינוֹ וּזְרוֹעַ קָדְשׁוֹ: הוֹדִיעַ יְהֹוָה יְשׁוּעָתוֹ, לְעֵינֵי הַגּוֹיִם גִּלָּה
צִדְקָתוֹ: זָכַר חַסְדּוֹ וֶאֱמוּנָתוֹ לְבֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל, רָאוּ כָּל־אַפְסֵי־אָרֶץ
אֵת יְשׁוּעַת אֱלֹהֵינוּ: הָרִיעוּ לַיהֹוָה כָּל־הָאָרֶץ, פִּצְחוּ וְרַנְּנוּ וְזַמֵּרוּ:
זַמְּרוּ לַיהֹוָה בְּכִנּוֹר, בְּכִנּוֹר וְקוֹל זִמְרָה: בַּחֲצֹצְרוֹת וְקוֹל שׁוֹפָר,
הָרִיעוּ לִפְנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהֹוָה: יִרְעַם הַיָּם וּמְלֹאוֹ, תֵּבֵל וְיֹשְׁבֵי בָהּ:
נְהָרוֹת יִמְחֲאוּ־כָף, יַחַד הָרִים יְרַנֵּנוּ: לִפְנֵי־יְהֹוָה כִּי בָא לִשְׁפֹּט
הָאָרֶץ, יִשְׁפֹּט־תֵּבֵל בְּצֶדֶק, וְעַמִּים בְּמֵישָׁרִים:

Israeli

mizmor, shiru ladonai shir chadash ki-nifla-ot asah, hoshi-ah-lo
yemino uzroa kodsho: hodia Adonai yeshu-ato, le-einei hagoyim gilah
tzidkato: zachar chasdo ve-emunato leveit Yisra-el, rau kol-afsei-aretz
et yeshu-at Eloheinu: hariu ladonai kol-ha-aretz, pitzchu veranenu vezameru:
zameru ladonai b'chinor, b'chinor vekol zimrah: bachatzotzrot vekol shofar,
hariu lifnei hamelech Adonai: yiram hayam umelo-o, tevel veyoshvei vah:
neharot yimchau-chaf, yachad harim yeranenu: lifnei-adonai ki va lishpot
ha-aretz, yishpot-tevel b'tzedek, ve-amim b'meisharim:

Commentary

… millennia recovered it again. Ravaged by the Holocaust a mere three years earlier, the declaration of Israel’s independence was a remarkable act of faith, an everlasting symbol of the victory of life over death, hope over despair.

Some thirty-three centuries ago, Moses prophesied: “Even if you have been dispersed to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back” (Deut. 30:4), and so it happened. If, as we believe, there are events that bear the signature of Heaven, this surely was one. Therefore we give thanks to God for bringing the land back to the people, and the people back to the land – the land where our people was born in ancient times, and reborn in ours.

… to rule and defend themselves. Only in Israel can a Jew speak a Jewish language, see a Jewish landscape, walk where our ancestors walked and continue the story they began. Only in Israel have Jews been able to live as a nation shaping its own destiny, constructing a society according to its own principles and laws.

Jews were the first to see God in history, to see the unfolding of events as a meaningful narrative, the ongoing story of the covenant between God and His people. The celebration of Yom HaAtzma’ut as a religious festival is part of this faith. Never before had a people survived so long an exile, its identity intact. Never before had a nation that had not known sovereignty for two …