Welcoming Shabbat - Simple
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Candle Lighting
Blessed are you G-d, our Lord, King of the universe, who commanded us to light the Shabbat candle.
Welcome Shabbat.
Please bring with you the restfulness
and tranquility that follows a diversified week of bustling work and educational activities. The void in which we could shape endless dreams –
together and separately.
Welcome!
Blessed is your candle.
Candle Lighting / Zelda
To light candles in all of the worlds –
Is Shabbat.
To light Shabbat candles
Is a leap of a soul filled with secrets
to a wonderful mysterious sea
Of the flame of sunset.
When I kindle the lights
My room turns into the River Dinor,
My heart sinks in cascades of emeralds.
Shabbat is the relaxation after creativity and the beginning a new creation. It's a spiritual Sabbatical to renew spirit. A person who had not produced anything in the weekdays, will not appreciate the flavor of Shabbat, and he who does not know the flavor of Shabbat, will not realize the flavor of creation. Shabbat in the life of a producer, as in the life of an entire nation, is virgin soil for the type of thought that leads to actions.
The thought that precedes actions The Shabbat is the bliss of complete rest after toil, in order to resume and carry out more and more actions that have already been in the planning.
(Zalman Shazar)
Who loves the Shabbat?
Mother and Father!
Who loves the Shabbat?
Grandpa and Grandma!
Who loves the Shabbat?
You and I and all of us!
Almost the entire world
So why isn't every day Shabbat?
Every day – Shabbat?
Blessed are you G-d, who created the fruit of the vine.
Let us bless over the vine and the fruit of the vine and the produce of the field and
over the delightful and good land.
As tradition Requires
Hold a round of - 'a good thing and bad thing' (that happened to you during the week)
Blessed are you G-d, King of the universe, who takes out bread from the ground.
We shall say the prayer for bread as a symbol of man's production, the fruit of his toil and of his efforts.
Being that he has the liberty to choose between good and evil and he choose good.
Winter/Gidi Gov
Lyrics: Yoel Lerner
Music: Avner Kaner
We'll tell here about the summer
That's almost gone
Umbrellas and boots
Are taken out of storage
Now – we won't go
To the sea
We'll wear gloves
And warm sweaters
Because it's winter
And the sun disappears
It rains on people's neck
It's winter – and cold
In winter – you need to wear
a coat all winter long
and it rains on your neck
It's winter – and cold!
Let Us Go Beloved
Lyrics: From the hymn of Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz
Music: A. Gabai
Come my beloved, towards the bride;
to welcome the Shabbat
A Peaceful and blessed Shabbat
"And the Lord blessed the seventh day and he sanctified it" – he blessed it with the light of man's countenance, and he sanctified it with the light of man's countenance. Man's demeanor on Shabbat is different than that of the weekdays"
(Bereishit Raba, 11)
Who is the man who desires life, who loves days to see good. Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from deceit. Stay away from evil, do good, seek peace and pursue it.
A Sorrowful Song / Rachel
Do you hear my voice, far one of mine?
Do you hear my voice, wherever you are?
A voice calls fiercely, a voice cries silently
And above time commands blessing
This earth is much and in it there are many paths
meeting narrowly, separating forever
A man asks, but his legs too weak
He will not find what he has lost
The last of my days is close, maybe
Close is the day of farewell tears
I will wait for you until my life burns out
As Rachel* waited for her love
Dear Friend
Greet the friend sitting next to you with a personal Shabbat greeting, wholeheartedly, since a person's demeanor on Shabbat differs that of the weekdays.
Shabbat Shalom!