It is customary to sing:
Hebrew
הִתְעוֹרְרִי הִתְעוֹרְרִי
כִּי בָא אוֹרֵךְ קוּמִי אוֹרִי
עוּרִי עוּרִי, שִׁיר דַּבֵּרִי
כְּבוֹד יְהוָה עָלַיִךְ נִגְלָה.
Sephardi
Hit'oreri hit'oreri
Ki va orech kumi ori
Uri uri, shir daberi
Kevod Adonai alayich niglah.
English
Wake up, wake up, For your light has come: rise, shine! Awake, awake, break out in song, For the LORD’s glory is revealed on you.
Ps. 118
Hebrew
זֶה־הַיּוֹם עָשָׂה יְהוָה, נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בוֹ:
Sephardi
Zeh-hayom asah Adonai, nagilah venismechah vo:
English
The day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Hebrew
לֹא תֵבוֹשִׁי וְלֹא תִכָּלְמִי
מַה תִּשְׁתּוֹחֲחִי וּמַה תֶּהֱמִי
בָּךְ יֶחֱסוּ עֲנִיֵּי עַמִּי
וְנִבְנְתָה עִיר עַל תִּלָּהּ.
Sephardi
Lo tevoshi velo tikalmi
Mah tishtochachi umah tehemi
Bach yechesu aniyei ami
Venivnetah ir al tilah.
English
Do not be ashamed, do not be confounded. Why be downcast? Why do you mourn? In you the needy of My people find shelter, And the city shall be rebuilt on its hill.
Hebrew
זֶה־הַיּוֹם עָשָׂה יְהוָה, נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בוֹ:
Sephardi
Zeh-hayom asah Adonai, nagilah venismechah vo:
English
The day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Hebrew
יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאל תִּפְרוֹצִי
וְאֶת יְהוָה תַּעֲרִיצִי
עַל יַד אִישׁ בֶּן־פַּרְצִי
וְנִשְׂמְחָה וְנָגִילָה.
Sephardi
Yamin usmol tifrotzi
Ve'et Adonai ta'aritzi
Al yad ish ben-partzi
Venismechah venagilah.
English
Right and left you shall spread out, And God you will revere. Through the descendant of Peretz, We shall rejoice and we shall be glad.
Hebrew
זֶה־הַיּוֹם עָשָׂה יְהוָה, נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בוֹ:
Sephardi
Zeh-hayom asah Adonai, nagilah venismechah vo:
English
The day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Ma’ariv for Weekdays (page 268) is said at this point, in the Yom Tov melody. After Full Kaddish, the Ark is opened and the following is said responsively by the Leader and congregation.
Deut. 6
Hebrew
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יְהוָה אֶחָד:
Sephardi
Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad:
English
Listen, Israel: the LORD is our God, the LORD is One.
The following is said three times responsively:
Hebrew
יְהוָה הוּא הָאֱלֹהִים.
Sephardi
Adonai hu haElohim.
English
The LORD, He is God.
The Leader says the following which is repeated by the congregation.
Hebrew
מִי שֶׁעָשָׂה נִסִּים לַאֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְלָנוּ,
וּגְאָלָנוּ מֵעַבְדוּת לְחֵרוּת
הוּא יִגְאָלֵנוּ גְאֻלָּה שְׁלֵמָה בְּקָרוֹב
וִיקַבֵּץ נִדָּחֵינוּ מֵאַרְבַּע כַּנְפוֹת הָאָרֶץ
חֲבֵרִים כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן.
Sephardi
Mi she'asah nisim la'avoteinu velanu,
Uge'alanu me'avdut lecheirut
Hu yig'aleinu ge'ulah shelemah bekarov
Vikabetz nidacheinu me'arba kanfot ha'aretz
Chaverim kol Yisrael, venomar amen.
English
May He who performed miracles for our ancestors and for us, redeeming us from slavery to freedom, grant us a complete redemption soon, and gather in our dispersed people from the four quarters of the earth, so that all Israel may be united in friendship, and let us say: Amen.
The Ark is closed.