In Jewish tradition, there is a specific psalm to recite each day of the week. The psalm for Shabbat (tov l’hodot ladonai…) is well known to many of us. The other days not so much.
As part of a series of essays on the psalms of the week, the folks at MyJewishLearning.org asked me to write about Psalm 48, the reading for Monday mornings. It was a psalm I’d only ever eyeballed or read by rote. Being assigned to read it more deeply opened it up for me. Now I love it – a picture postcard of a gleaming city of antiquity, and a map of our internal landscape as well.
Read my thoughts in “Psalm 48: The Architecture of Praise.”
To read essays on the psalms for other days of the week, click on: