Barchu - The Call to Collective Prayer
Read this prayer below, or listen to this youtube audio. Courtesy of: Beit Hallel Congregation in Roswell, GA.
While this blessing is not recited at the beginning of the prayer service, it is a call to communal worship and represents the official beginning of the communal prayer.
In style it is similar to the call to prayer that we can find in Nehemiah 9:5.
The custom to bow at this point is derived from the words of David in 1 Chronicles 29:20:
"Then David said to all the assembly, 'Now bless the Lord your God.' So all the assembly blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king."
In Judaism, this call to prayer requires a 'Minyan,' a quorum of at least 10 Jewish men.
Transliteration of Barchu:
The cantor says:
"Bar’chu et Adonai ha-mevorach."
And the congregation responds:
"Baruch Adonai ha-mevorach le’olam va’ed."
And the cantor repeats:
"Baruch Adonai ha-mevorach le’olam va’ed."
Barchu Blessing in Hebrew:
:החזן אומר
בָּרְכוּ אֶת יְהֹוָה הַמְּבֹרָךְ
:הקהל עונה
בָּרוּךְ יְהֹוָה הַמְּבֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֵד
:החזן חוזר
בָּרוּךְ יְהֹוָה הַמְּבֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֵד
Translation of Barchu:
The cantor says:
“Bless the Lord, the blessed One.”
And the congregation responds:
“Blessed is the Lord, who is to be blessed forever and ever.”
And the cantor repeats:
“Blessed is the Lord, who is to be blessed forever and ever.”
Barchu Prayer Printout
Click on the link to download a printable PDF of this prayer: Barchu Prayer
Please have mercy and pray for me for financial miracle that God will bless me financially and that my sister can get restored her social security and a job promotion. Please let pray for me that my medical bills are paid in credit cards and student loans are forgiven some way somehow the God will provide I beg you. Please and that I have favor with both God and my family
Please pray for me for a financial miracle that God will have mercy on my finances that all my student loans are paid off or forgiven credit cards and hospital bills. They got to have mercy and my still collects social security and that she’s able to pay the rent with no problems and she gets a promotion at her job.
Also, please pray for me that I have favor with my siblings and my father. Please pray that God will bless me financially. There’s some way somehow all my student loans hospital bills and credit card will be paid
Will pray!