Prayers for B’Nai Mitzvah Students — Blessing Before Torah Reading
Orin Reynolds
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Read by Michael Seidel


Bless Adonai, who is blessed. Blessed is Adonai, who is blessed now and forever.
Blessed are You, Adonai our G-d, Source of all in the universe, who has chosen us from among the peoples, and given us the Torah. Blessed are You, Adonai, who gives the Torah.
Bar’-chu et A-do-nai ha-m’-vo-rah.
(Ba-ruch A-do-nai ha-m’-vo-rach l’-o-lam va-ed.)
Ba-ruch A-do-nai ha-m’-vo-rach l’-o-lam va-ed.
Ba-ruch a-tah, A-do-nai
El-o-hei-nu, Me-lech ha-o-lam,
a-sher ba-char ba-nu mi-kol ha-a-mim,
v’-na-tan la-nu et To-ra-to.
Ba-ruch a-tah, A-do-nai, no-tein ha-To-rah.