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SDAH 387
Come, O Sabbath day and bring
Peace and healing on thy wing;
And to every troubled breast
Speak of the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
Text
1
Come, O Sabbath day and bring
Peace and healing on thy wing;
And to every troubled breast
Speak of the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
2
Earthly longings bid retire,
Quench the passions’ hurtful fire;
To the wayward, sin oppressed,
Bring thou thy divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
3
Wipe from every cheek the tear,
Banish care and silence fear;
All things working for the best,
Teach us the divine behest:
Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
(a) Mal 4:2 (b) Acts 10:38 (c) Rom 8:28
Author
Gustav Gottheil (1827-1903)
Copyright
from Union Hymnal 1932, Central Conference of American Rabbis
Hymn Tune
SABBATH
Metrical Number
7.7.7.7.3.3.
Composer
A.W. Binder (1895-1966)
Hymn Score
Piano Accompaniment
Notes
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The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. God rested, blessed, and sanctified the first Sabbath in the Garden of Eden so that man may also rest, be blessed, and sanctified whenever he would “remember” to keep the Sabbath Holy by His grace. (Lesson 9, 2nd Quarter 2021 -Thursday, Remembering the Sabbath, 5/27/2021)
This is one of the two hymns SDAH has taken from Union hymnal, published by the Central Conference American Rabbis, 1948 (see also SDAH 395, “As Birds Unto the Genial Homeland”). In the preface to this hymnbook is found this acknowledgment, “To Abraham W. Binder of New York, who served the committee as its musical section of this hymnbook, and who himself contributed many new musical setting” (92 hymn tunes and harmonizations!).
Born in 1895 in New York, son and grandson of Jewish cantors, Binder American rabbi to publicly support Zionism during the first Zionist Congress of 1897. Gottheil died in 1903.
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