The Passing of Tishrei (Neesaf Tishrey)

Met Av umet Elul umet humam (Av has died, Elul has died, and heat has died,)

Gam ne'esaf Tishrei umet imam (Tishrei also has come to die with them)

Rak nish'arah gahelet amumah (Only a dull ember remained)

Shel ahavat hakayitz hag'dumah (of the truncated summer

El m'arat David ha-shunamit (To the cavid of David, the Shunamite)

Tatzmid et y'racheiha hakarot (Presses her cold thighs)

El hom ha-avanim she-al kivro (to the warmth of his grave's stones)

Met Av umet Elul...

V'yeled zar holekh v'tar k'mo Sha-ul (A foreign child travels like Saul)

Et ikvotav shel Av veshel Elul (on the trails of Av and Elul)

Uv'amum hu m'hapes et hatzalul (and, in the dimness, seeks clarity.)

Lekh yeled lekh, ulai b'sof hama-arav (Go, child, go perhaps at the end of the west)

Bein yam v'yabashah, bein Av listav (between sea and land, between Av and autumn,)

Y'or shelkha ya-ir bein hatav (Your light will shine among its sins.)

Met Av umet Elul...

Hata-ei ha'ish v'ha-ishah v'hanahash (Sins of a man, a woman, and a serpent,)

Hatat David b'Uriya, kivsat harash (sins of David to Uriah, the poor man's lamb)

v'Yonatan v'ya-arat had'vash (and Jonathan and the honeysuckle)

Met Av umet Elul, hakayitz shav (Av has died, and Elul has died, the summer has returned)

sipur shelkha yaldi, mat'hil akhshav (Your story, my child, begins now)

im kol had'vash v'hanahash v'ha'ishah (withall the honey, the serpent and the woman.)

Met Av umet Elul...