This can lead to a conversation of different models of “grace” as forgiveness, as gift, as energy, as favor, and so on, or perhaps a different emphasis on one aspect of grace over the others.įor those interested in such a conversation, I present the Hail Mary in Greek ( source link), the original language of Luke’s Gospel where the prayer is found: My own sense is that whoever originally translated the prayer into Hebrew thought of God’s grace as being synonymous with God’s mercy. When I posted to Facebook, some folks commented on the word “Ḥesed” being used for “grace,” followed by a discussion about how that was an “interesting” word-choice seeing it might better be translated as “Ḥen” (חֵן). How my parent’s Jewish friends pronounced the words became how my parents pronounced them, and after seven years working for a Jewish-owned business where the owner (my best friend’s dad) used the same pronunciation, Ashkenazi is what I’m used to hearing. Now if you’re asking why I don’t use Sefardi like most of the internet, it’s because there’s a tradition regarding Hebrew pronunciation: you use the pronunciation of your parents or of your teacher. The only difference is that their transcription reflects standard Sefardi pronunciation, whereas mine recognizes Sav as a letter. James Vicariate for Hebrew-Speaking Catholics in Israel. This is the standard version of the prayer as used by Hebrew-speaking Catholics, attested at, at WikiSource, and at this video, which in turn was linked from the St. Miryam hakedoshah, Em HaElohim, hispeleli ba’adenu haḥotim, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shalom lakh, Miryam, m’leas HaḤesed, Adonai imakh. Speaking of interest, here are the words with transcription: The image was originally a Facebook post, but proved so popular I chose to post it to the blog so there’d be a handy link anytime someone’s interested: For those of you who’ve always wanted to know how to say the Hail Mary in Hebrew.
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