and keep us from all; and grant us from Yourself etc. On New Moons and on the Weekday of the Festival, one adds at the seventeenth blessing at evening and morning and afternoon and recites the blessing with this text: Be pleased, God, our God, etc., until: the worship of Israel, Your nation. Our God and the God of our fathers, may there ascend and come, etc., and our eyes shall see, etc. And on the Weekday of the Festival, one says: on the day of this holy convocation, on the day of the occasion of this Festival of the Matzoth; or: on the day of the occasion of this Festival of the Weeks; or: on the day of the occasion of this Festival of the Sukkoth. On a fast day, the individual blesses the sixteenth blessing with this text: Hear our voice, God, our God; have mercy and be compassionate upon us; and accept with compassion and with desire our prayer. Before You, our King, do not return us empty-handed. Answer us, our Father, answer us, on the day of our fast; for we are in great distress. Do not hide Your Face from us; and do not turn away Your Ear from hearing our request; and be near to our outcry. Before we will call, and You Shall Answer; we will speak, and You Shall Hear; as it is said: And it shall be, before they will call, and I Will Answer; while they yet speak, and I Will Hear; for You Hear the prayer of every mouth. Blessed Are You, God, Who Hears prayer. And the leader of the congregation says this text – a blessing for itself – after the seventh blessing, he says: Answer us, etc., until: for God Answers at a time of distress; Redeems and Rescues in every time of distress and woe. Blessed Are You, God, Who Responds in time of distress. On the ninth of Av, one blesses the fourteenth blessing with this text: Be Compassionate, God, upon us, upon Israel, Your nation, and upon Jerusalem, Your city, the mourning, destroyed, desolate city, which is given in the hand of strangers; which sits and has a covered head like a barren women who did not bear; and legions swallowed her; and worshipers of idols inherited her; and they gave the carcass of your servants to be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beast of the earth. Therefore, Zion with bitterness shall cry and Jerusalem shall give her voice; my heart, my heart, upon their casualties; my inmost parts, my inmost parts, upon their killed. See, God, and look; and see her desolations; and console her; for with fire You Lit her, and with fire You are destined to rebuild her, as it is written: And I Will Be to her, Says God, a wall of fire round about; and I will be the glory in the midst of her. Blessed Are You, God, Builder of Jerusalem. On Purim, one blesses the eighteenth blessing with this text: We give thanks to You, that You Are He, God, our God, upon our lives that are delivered into Your Hand, upon our souls that are entrusted to You, upon Your miracles that are in each and every day, and upon Your marvelous deeds that are in every time, etc., upon the miracles, and upon the mighty deeds, and upon the salvations, etc., and upon all of them, God, our God, we give thanks to You, the Good one, for they have not ceased, etc. On Hanukkah, one recites this blessing with this text: We give thanks to You, etc., until: and upon Your wonders that are in every time, evening, and morning, and noon, upon the miracles, etc., until: and afterwards, Your sons came, etc. A cantor always recites the third blessing with this text: We shall sanctify You and we shall coronate You and we shall give You a triple sanctification like that is said by Your prophet: And one called unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the God of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His Glory. His Glory and His Greatness Fill the world and His servants ask: Where is the place of His Glory, to admire him? As opposed to them, they praise and say: Blessed be the Glory of God from His Place. From Your Place, our King, You Shall Appear and You Shall Reign upon us for we wait for You; when Will You Reign in Zion in our life and in our days You Shall Dwell, You Shall be Exalted and You Shall be Sanctified in the midst of Jerusalem, Your city, unto all generations, for eternity of eternities; and our eyes shall see in the Kingdom of Your Might like that is said in the words of Your Holiness by David, Your righteous Messiah: God Will Reign forever; your God, Zion, unto all generations; Hallelujah. Unto all generations we shall tell Your Greatness and for eternity of eternities we shall sanctify Your Sanctification; and Your Praise, our God, shall not depart out of our mouth, for You are a God Who is a Great and Holy King. Blessed Are You, God, the Holy God. At the time that the cantor says in this blessing: "And one called unto another", the whole congregation answers: Holy, holy, holy, etc. And when he says: "Where is the place of His Glory", the whole congregation answers, they praise and they say: Blessed etc. And when he says: "In our life and in our days", the whole congregation answers: "Amen". And when he says: "By David, Your righteous Messiah", the whole congregation says: God Will Reign forever. And all these things that the community answers, he reads together with them. And he should not raise his voice at the time that they answer with him. And both the individual and the cantor, during the ten days that are from Rosh Hashanah until the Day of Atonement, say at the end of this blessing: As it says: And the God of hosts was exalted through justice, and the Holy God was sanctified through righteousness. Blessed Are You, God, the Holy King. A cantor always says kaddish before every prayer and after every prayer and after he says the order of the day. At each time that he will say the order of the day, he should beseech a little and should say kaddish. And when he will finish to read in the Torah and at every time that he will beseech with words of supplications, when he will finish his supplications he should say kaddish.
Text of the kaddish
Exalted and sanctified be His Great Name in the world which He Created according to His Will and may He Establish His Kingdom and may His Salvation blossom and may He Bring His Messiah near and may He Redeem His nation in your lives and in your days and in the lives of the entire House of Israel, speedily and in near time and say: Amen. May His Great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. May He be blessed etc. At the time that the cantor will say: "Exalted and sanctified be His Great Name", the whole congregation answers: "Amen". And at the time that he says first: "And say: Amen", the whole congregation answers: "Amen. May His Great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity." And it is the commandment of the first Sages to answer "Amen. May His Great Name be blessed" with a man's whole strength. And when he says: "May He be blessed", the whole congregation answers: "Amen". And when he says: "Blessed is He", the whole congregation answers: "Amen". And when he says at the end: "And say: Amen", the whole congregation answers: "Amen". And in this order they answer at each and every kaddish. The last kaddish – Every kaddish that a cantor says after he finishes the prayer, that he does not say anything afterwards, but the whole congregation hears it and leaves, it is the custom of the congregation to add at its end this text: May their prayers be accepted and may they be fulfilled their supplications and their prayers and their supplications of the entire House of Israel before their Father Who is in Heaven. May there be abundant peace and help and redemption from Heaven upon you and upon us and upon the assemblies of Israel and say: Amen. He Who Makes peace in His high places, He in His Mercy Shall Make peace upon us and upon all of Israel. Amen. Kaddish of our rabbis – each ten of Israel or more that occupy themselves with the study of the Oral Torah, and even with Midrashoth or with Haggadoth, when they finish, one of them says kaddish with this text: Exalted and sanctified be His Great Name Who is Prepared to Renew the world and to Revive the dead and to Redeem the living and to Build the City of Jerusalem and to Complete the Holy Sanctuary and to Uproot foreign worship from the earth and to Restore Worship of Heaven to its place with its brightness and its unity and may He Establish His Kingdom etc., until: And consolations that are said in the world and say: Amen. Upon our rabbis and upon their disciples and upon the disciples of their disciples that occupy themselves with the Torah, that are in this place and in every place, may there be to them and to you grace and lovingkindness and compassion and help and relief from before their Father Who is in Heaven and say: Amen. May there be peace etc., and this is what is called kaddish of our rabbis. It is our custom to beseech with falling on one's face with these words and verses, at times with all of them and at times with some of them: Therefore, I kneel and bow and beseech before You, Lord of the world, God of gods and Lord of lords, for not because of our righteousnesses do we set forth our supplications before You, but because of Your many compassions. God, hear, God, forgive, God, attend and do, defer not. What shall we say before You, God? What shall we speak and how shall we clear ourselves? We have sinned, we have dealt iniquitously and we have done wickedly and we have rebelled and we have turned aside from Your commandments and from Your ordinances. Unto You, God, belongs the righteousness, and unto us, shame of the face. Our faces have blackened because of our sins and our stature has been bent because of our guiltinesses. We do not have a mouth to reply, nor a forehead to lift up our head. My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have increased until over the head, and our guiltiness has grown up until the heavens. We do not have deeds. Do with us righteousness for Your Name's sake and save us like You Promised us by Your prophet: For My Name's sake will I defer My anger and for My Praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off. Not for your sake do I do, house of
