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Rabbi Shai A. Held '94 recited Psalm 121 in Hebrew, and Tova A. Serkin '02, who is also a Crimson editor, recited it in English...
Rabbi Robert D. Klapper read Psalm 130 in Hebrew followed by Rachel L. Brown '01 in English...
...result, when we sat down to the last Sabbath meal toward the end of the day, we relied for illumination on light from the windows. As the day waned, the light began to die. When it came time for the Hebrew recitation (three times) of the 23rd Psalm, there was so little light that I could no longer read. I had to follow the words of my father as he chanted the Psalm softly with eyes closed. Thus did its every phrase and cadence become forever inscribed in my memory. To this day, whenever I hear the 23rd Psalm...
...have inscribed quotations meant to be meaningful to the new ages of inhabitants. It is easy to walk across the campus deaf to these musings and epigrams--we do it all the time. We can't always stop to ponder the side of Emerson Hall and its quotation from Psalm 8: "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" or really consider what it means to enter the Yard across from Harvard Bookstore in order to "grow in wisdom" and leave it in order to better serve our country and our kind...
With the 19th century began the practice, still maintained, of singing Psalm 78 at each sermon to the tune of "St. Martin...