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Truth in Death

from Golem by Akloleh

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Horrified at the violence that the golem committed, its creator stands in horror. Even though this began as an act of self-defense to protect the Jewish people, they wonder whether their actions were right or just. And so they recite Viddui, a prayer for repentance commonly read on Yom Kippur.

lyrics

Eloheinu veilohei avoseinu
tovo lefoneicho
tefilloseinu ve'al tis'allam mittechinnoseinu

she'ein anachnu azzei fonim
ukeshei oref
lomar lefoneicho

adonoy eloheinu veilohei avoseinu
tzaddikim anachnu velo chotonu
avol anachnu va'avoseinu chotonu

oshamnu
bogadnu
gozalnu
Dibbarnu dofi

he'evinu
vehirsha'nu

zadnu
chomasnu
tofalnu sheker
yo'atznu ro
kizzavnu Latznu
moradnu
ni'atznu
sorarnu
ovinu

posha'nu
Tzoranu
kishinu oref
rosha'nu
shichasnu
ti'avnu
to'inu
ti’to'enu

Fin dem got fin dan fater vos helft dir,
in fin shadai vos bentsht dikh,
mit brokhes fin himl oybn,
brokhes fin tom vos hoyert untn,
brokhes in trakht
Di brokhes fin dan fater
shtaign ariber di brokhes fin mane eltern –
biz dem shpitz fin di aybike berg.
Zai zoln zan oyf dem kop fin yosefn,
in oyfn shaidl dem firsht fin zane brider.

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Our God and God of our fathers,
may our prayers come before You,
and do not turn away from our supplication,
for we are not so impudent and obdurate as to declare before You,
that we are righteous and have not sinned.
Indeed, we and our fathers have sinned.

We have transgressed,
we have acted perfidiously,
we have robbed,
we have slandered.
We have acted perversely and wickedly,
we have willfully sinned,
we have done violence,
we have imputed falsely.
We have given evil counsel,
we have lied,
we have scoffed,
we have rebelled,
we have provoked,
we have been disobedient,
we have committed iniquity,
we have wantonly transgressed,
we have oppressed,
we have been obstinate.
We have committed evil,
we have acted perniciously,
we have acted abominably,
we have gone astray,
we have led others astray.
We have strayed from Your good precepts and ordinances,
and it has not profited us.
Indeed, You are just in all that has come upon us,
for You have acted truthfully,
and it is we who have acted wickedly.

The God of your father’s,
who helps you,

And Shaddai who blesses you

With blessings of heaven above,

Blessings of the deep that couches below,

Blessings of the breast and womb.
The blessings of your father

Surpass the blessings of my ancestors,

To the utmost bounds of the eternal hills. 

May they rest on the head of Joseph,

On the brow of the elect of his brothers.

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from Golem, track released September 22, 2023

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