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Bilvavi mishkan evneh lahadar k'vodo, Uv'mishkan mizbayach asim l'karnay hodo. Ul'ner tamid ekach li ess aish ha'akaydah, Ul'korban akriv lo ess nafshi, Ess nafshi hayechidah.
Translated lyrics
Singable translation: In my heart a sanctuary I'll build To His glory's splendour, And in it an altar I shall place To the rays of His grandeur. And for an Eternal Flame I shall take The fire meant for Isaac of old, And the sacrifice offering that I shall make Is my one and only soul. Literal translation: In my heart a sanctuary I shall build, To the splendour of His glory/honour. And in the sanctuary an altar I shall place, To the rays/beams of His glory/grandeur/beauty. And for an Eternal Flame I shall take me The fire of the Akaydah [Yitzchak's would-be sacrifice]; And for a sacrifice I shall offer Him my soul, My one and only soul.
Notes
Words: Rabbi Yizchok Hutner (1900s Warsaw-Brooklyn), based on Sefer Hareidim (Elazar Azikri, Sfat 1500s). Tune: Rabbi Shmuel Brazil (1970) The music was composed by Shmuel Brazil and included on an Or Chodosh albumn from the 1970s. See page from Sefer Haredim here: https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37325&pgnum=142 it's in the second paragraph, on the line beginning with bet
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