Blessings for Reading the Torah

Before the Reading

Reader: Barchu et Adonai ham’vorach

Congregation:

Baruch Adonai ham’vorach

l’olam va’ed.

Reader:

Baruch Adonai ham’vorach

l’olam va’ed. Baruch atah Adonai,

Eloheinu melech ha’olam, asher bachar

banu mi’kol ha’amim, veh’natan lanu et

Torah’toh. Baruch atah Adonai, no’ten

ha’Torah.

After the Reading

Reader:

Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu

melech ha’olam, asher natan lanu Torat

emet, veh’chayei olam nata beh’tocheinu.

Baruch atah Ad

onai, no’ten ha’Torah.