Symphony No.3 "Kaddish" / Finale: Allegro vivo, con gioia (Kaddish3)
SPEAKER The dawn is chilly, but the dawn has come. Father, we've won another day. We have dreamed our Kaddish, and wakened alive. Good morning, Father. We can still be immortal, You and I, bound by our rainbow. That is our covenant, and to honor it Is our honor ... not quite the covenant We bargained for, so long ago, At the time of that Other, First Rainbow. But then I was only Your helpless infant, Arms hard around You, dead without You. We have both grown older, You and I. And I am not sad, and You must not be sad. Unfurrow Your brow, look tenderly again At me, at us, at all these children Of God here in this sacred house. And we shall look tenderly back to You.
O my Father, Lord of Light! Beloved Majesty: my Image, my Self! We are one, after all, You and I: Together we suffer, together exist, And forever will recreate each other. Recreate, recreate each other! Suffer, and recreate each other!
SOPRANO SOLO, BOYS' CHOIR, AND CHORUS Y'hē sh'mē raba m'varach ...