INTRODUCTION

MY voice shalt Thou hear betimes,
O Lord,
early in the morning
will I direct my payer unto Thee,
and will look up.
Blessed art Thou., O Lord,
who didst create the firmament of heaven,
the heavens and the heaven of heavens,
the heavenly powers,
Angels, Archangels,
Cherubim, Seraphim,
waters above the heavens,
mists and exhalations,
for showers, dew, hail, snow as wool,
hoar frost as ashes, ice as morsels,
clouds from the ends of the earth,
lightnings, thunders, winds out of Thy
treasures, storms;
waters beneath the heavens,
for drinking and for bathing.