With awesome reverence / great respect / fear and trembling / awe

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With awesome reverence / great respect / fear and trembling / awe

With awesome reverence / great respect / fear and trembling / awe

With a feeling of awe and holiness; reverence of the sublime.

(“Give to the LORD the glory due to His name; bow down to the LORD in awesome reverence” — Psalms 29:2; and likewise: “Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, from here (Psalms 29) bow to the LORD in the majesty of holiness; do not read majesty but with awesome reverence” — Berakhot 30b; and likewise: “One never stands to pray except with seriousness. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, bow to the LORD in the majesty of holiness — with awesome reverence” — Jerusalem Talmud, Berakhot 5a; and likewise: “There was an expression of awesome reverence on his face, and he appeared entirely reverent in his gaze” — Deborah Baron, Exiles, 7.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בְּחֶרְדַּת קֹדֶשׁ

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּתְחוּשַׁת יִרְאָה וְקֹדֶשׁ. יִרְאַת הָרוֹמְמוּת.

("הָבוּ לַה' כְּבוֹד שְׁמוֹ הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַה' בְּהַדְרַת קֹדֶשׁ"– תְּהִלִּים כט ב, וְכֵן: "אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי, מֵהֲכָא (תְּהִלִּים כט) הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַה' בְּהֲדַר קֹדֶשׁ, אַל תִּקְרִי בְּהֲדַרת אֶלָא בְּחֶרְדַּת (קֹדֶשׁ)"– בְּרָכוֹת ל ע"ב, וְכֵן: "לְעוֹלָם אֵין עוֹמְדִין לְהִתְפַּלֵּל אֶלָּא מִתּוֹךְ כֹּבֵד רֹאשׁ. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי אָמַר הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַה' בְּהֲדַר קֹדֶשׁ– בְּחִרְדַּת קֹדֶשׁ"– יְרוּשְׁלֶמִי בְּרָכוֹת, ה, א, וְכֵן: "הָיְתָה הַבָּעָה שֶׁל חֶרְדַּת קֹדֶשׁ בְּפָנָיו, וְכֻלוֹ נִרְאֶה כְיָרֵא מֵהַבִּיט אֵלֶיהָ"– דְּבוֹרה בָּרוֹן / גוֹלִים, 7)

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