Adon Olam 
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TITLE: a-DON o-LAM
PAGE: Siddur Sim Shalom, 514 Companion Siddur, 57
TRANSLITERATION
a-don o-LAM
a-SHER ma-LAH
bi-TE-rem KOL
yi-TZEER neev-RA.
li-AYT na-a-SA
vi-hef-TZO KOL
a-ZY ME-leh
shi-MO neek-RA.
vi-a-ha-RAY keeh-LOT ha-KOL
li-va-DO yeem-LOH no-RA.
vi-HOO ha-YA
vi-HOO ho-VE He
vi-HOO yee-hi-YE
bi-teef-a-RA.
vi-HOO E-had
vi-AYN shay-NEE
li-ham-SHEEL LO
li-hah-BEE-ra
bi-LEE ray-SHEET
bi-LEE tah-LEET,
vi-LO ha-OZ
vi-ha-mees-RA.
vi-HOO ay-LEE
vi-HY go-a-LEE,
vi-TZOOR hev-LEE
bi-AYT tza-RA.
vi-HOO nee-SEE,
oo-ma-NOS LEE,
mi-NAT KO-see
bi-YOM ek-RA
bi-ya-DO
af-KEED roo-HEE,
bi-AYT ee-SHAN
vi-a-EE-ra,
vi-EEM roo-HEE
gi-vee-ya-TEE,
a-do-NY LEE
vi-LO ee-RA.
SOME THOUGHTS—
Adon Olam may be a cute little ditty at the end of the service but its powerful theological message is very compelling. God is portrayed as creator, redeemer, savior, and master over all. Life and death are in His hands. When God is in our hearts, we need fear nothing. Adon Olam is sometimes recited each morning. But on Shabbat, congregations tend to recite it at the very end, as if it were the destination of all prayer. Perhaps it is. To be able to walk away from a service with a sense of God in our hearts is, in fact, the goal.
That is what it means to be holy—to have a sense of God in our hearts always.
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Updated July 12, 2006 
