Good Morning everyone

Morning

Congrats!

Happy Anniversary

Good morning!

Happy Anniversary Babette

Hello everyone

Good Morning Rabbi

so sorry Ed

Happy Anniversary Babette and Bruce!

BJ also has a morning and evening minyan

Can you give the full name for BJ?

B’nai Jeshurun

www.bj.org

https://www.bj.org/ for Dean

Have a blessed day - don weiss

RSK can actually sing!

Good morning, everyone.

pretty good your rendition of considering candles burning 😜

Dedicated to Adrienne Cooper

Curious why you're reading yud he vav he as "hashem" rather than "Adonai".

The rabbi's sound overmodulates when she goes too close to the microphone.

Dedicated to the recent memory of Vittoria

in memory of my parents Ruth and Seymour Matuson

Adonoy sound like adonis?

Adonai is actually a plural. Adoni would be the singular.

…except when praying, right? All Jews say Adonai during prayers, though, correct?

Plural adonai parallel to elohim (also plural)?

Is this the only psalm that deals with a specific event in David's life

Yes, Elohim is also plural.

I like to think that the ancient Jews referred to g-d as male, female, and plural (non-binary).

Could it be of his story?

even Shekinah has non-binary implications

Sharon, you may want to read the introduction to Psalm 3 in the Alter scan I distributed. It’s possible that the first line is a title, added later, which has become part of the text during centuries of transmission.

Many

Tzures

mitzraim

How many are my foes

To my soul

We also use this word when saying leave me alone. leave me to my nefesh.

Descartes

Doesn’t nefesh have some early meaning of “neck”? Of blood flowing through..

El

Yael

plural

Plural

Is Sela like Amen?

Selah sometimes praise

Like saying, “Word.”

We've sung Amen, Selah in the chorus

A++100%

You all should have the scan of the Alter Psalms, with the introduction. He has a long discussion of Selah.

Lord

I believe there is also a theory that "selah" may have been a musical superscription, akin to "forte"

IDF - tzvah hagana l'Israel

Tzahal

Irgun

Self

Harim - mountains

Kamim alai vs. Oomayrim roshi

The psalmist is being denigrated by the psalmist's enemies not necessarily by the psalmist on whose side God stands.

The despair is that the psalmist will be destroyed by the psalmist's enemies.

Negative rising vs. positive rising. People compared to God.

meir’im v.1 parallels kamim in v.4. These are the bookends (?)

Yas

Yes

Balanced against the ata in earlier verse

Does that make it more intimate and personal?

My native Bulgarian is like that, with person and number embedded into verb ending; it is (Modern) English that has lost those endings so you always need proniouns.

I mean that's an unusal development even for an Indo-European labguage like English to depend on pronouns instead of verbendings

Second word looks like primitive Hebrew

I'm impressed that there even are spaces between words

Thanks for posting an image. You know those puzzles, where they tell you to look for the first word you see? Here, I saw “Chaim,” on the 3rd row of text, which is very encouraging to me!

CBST early leader/member Murray Lichtenstein is a Scrolls scholar

Get Micha to do it.

Thank you, Sarah, I can see that 'chaim" now.

ALl the lines start with the letter Lamed

Can anyone recognize the second letter of the first word? At first I thought it was a Shin, but the Shins in the rest of the text look different.

Wow, inddeed, Yael (at least the Lamed is always recognizable)

It might be Ayin and Vav, which would be LeOlam.

L'dor v'dor

Same as the 5th line.

Indeed. It's googd to have a native speaker around

When I started studying Hebrew on a whim two years ago, I had no idea that I would get into this. :)

Thank you!

Yes, thrilling!

Wonderful study! Much thanks!!

great class. thank you.

thank you!

Wonderful

Thank you all

Thank you RSK, Harold and Julia