Eden Village Siddur by Eden Village Camp

Friday Night Prayerbook

Siddur Kabbalat Shabbat

Candle Lighting for Shabbat

When there is Light in the soul

There is Beauty, in the person

When there is Beauty in the person

There is Harmony in the home

When there is Harmony in the home

There is Honor in the nation

When there is Honor in the nation

There is Peace on earth

When there is Peace of earth

There is Light in the soul...

Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melekh ha’olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lehadlik ner shel shabbat.

Yedid Nefesh

Soulmate, merciful parent

Pull me towards your will, and I will run like a deer

Your friendship will be as sweet to me as honey nectar.

Beautiful radience of the world

My sould is lovesick for you

Please heal me with your radiance and bring joy to the world

Now, just like it always was. 1 2 3 4

Ancient merciful one — spare me

Because I’m yearning a great yearning for you

Please don’t ignore my plea.

Show yourself, and spread over me your canopy of peace

Light up this entire land and we’ll be so happy. Quick, love, it’s time!

Mizmor L’David

Mizmor l’david havu l’adonai b’nei elim, havu l’adonai kavod va-oz

havu l’adonai k’vod sh’mo hish’tachavu l’adonai b’hadrat kodesh

kol adonai al ha-mayim el-ha-kavod hir’im

adonai al mayim rabim kol adonai ba-koach, kol adonai beh-hadar, kol adonai shover arazim vay’shaber adonai et arzei ha-l’vanon va-yar-ki-dem k’mo ei-gel l’vanon v’sir’yon k’mo ven re-ei-mim

kol adonai khotzev la-havot eish, kol adonai yachil midbar yachil adonai midbar kadesh kol adonai y’choleil ayalot va-yechesof y’arot u-v’hei-chalo kulo omer kavod adonai la-mabul yashav, va-yeshev adonai melech l’olam adonai oz l’amo yitein, adonai y’varech et amo va-shalom.

A poem of David. Let’s sing to the Creator. The voice of the Creator is on the water, it thunders with many waters, it’s strong, it’s beautiful. The voice of the Creator can break the mighty cedar trees of Lebanon, and can make mighty mountains — like Mt. Hermon — dance like a calf. The voice of the Creator is like fire, it scare even the desert, it can make the deer dance and clear forests. May the Creator give the People of Israel strength; may the Creator bless us with the blessing of peace.

Lecha Dodi

Lecha dodi likrat kala, penei Shabbat nekabela.

Come, beloved, to greet the Bride, and let us welcome the Sabbath.

Shamor vezachor bedibur echad,

hishmi’anu El ham’yuchad.

Adonai echad ushemo echad,

lesheim ul’tiferet velit’hila.

The One who weaves all together caused us to hear both “keep” and “remember”. The Infinite is one and oneness is its name in word and in beauty and songs of praise.

Likrat Shabat lechu venelcha

ki hi mekor habracha

meirosh mikedem nesucha

sof ma’aseh, bemachshava techila.

Hitoreri, hitoreri

ki va oreich! kumi, ori,

uri uri, shir dabeiri

kevod Adonai alayich nigla.

Arise! Arise! Your light has come! Arise, my Light! Awake, awake, sing a song! The Glory of the Infinite shines through you!

Tune Changes

Lo teivoshi velo tikalmi

matishtochachi umah tehemi

bach yechesu aniyei ami

venivnetah ir al tilah.

Let us go to greet the Sabbath for she is the Wellspring of Blessing. Annointed before the dawn of creation first to be conceived, last to be born.

Mikdash melech ir meluchah

Kumi tze’i mitoch ha-hafeichah

Rav lach shevet be-eimek habacha

vehu yachamol alayich chemlah

Royal Shrine and regal City arise from the tumult of change. For you have been long enough in the valley of tears and the Holy One has tenderness for you.

Hitna’ari me’afar kumi

livshi bigdei tifarteich ami

al yad ish beit halachmi

karvah el nafshi ge’alah

3 4

Arise from the earth and become young again. Put on the clothing of beauty, you who are my People. By the hand of the sprout of Jesse, of the house of bread, let my spirit’s deliverance come.

Do not be shy or ashamed. Why do you cast yourself down into the depths? In you the poor of my people will shelter, and the City will be built upon her ruins. Vehayu limshisah shosayich

verachaku kol mevalayich

yasis alayich elohayich

kimsos chatan al kalah.

The destroyers will be destroyed. The swallowers will be sent away. And your God will rejoice in you as a groom rejoices with a bride.

Yamin usmol tifrotzi

ve’et adonai ta’aritzi

al yad ish bein partzi

venismecha venagila

6 7 8

You will burst forth to right and left and you will bring the Divine down to earth by the hand of the one who breaks through and you will be glad and rejoice.

*Everyone Rises and Turns to the Door to Greet the Shabbat*

Boi veshalom, ateret ba-ala

gam besimcha uvetsahala

toch emunei am segula.

Bo’i chalah! Bo’i chalah! (Bow twice)

Come in peace, crown of your mate, in joy and in merriment among the faithful of your treasured people. Come, O Bride! Come, O Bride!

Barchu

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and downwho is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

–Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, 1992

LEADER

Barchu et Adonai ha’mevorach

Blessed is Adonai, the fountain of blessing.

GROUP

Baruch Adonai ha’mevorach le’olam vaed

Blessed is Adonai, the fountain of blessing forever.

LEADER REPEATS

Baruch Adonai ha’mevorach le’olam vaed

Blessed is Adonai, the fountain of blessing forever.

*This section is done silently*

Sh’ma (listen!)

Sh’-ma Yis-ra-eil Adonai E-lo-hei-nu, A-donai e-chad

Ba-ruch sheim k’-vod mal-chu-to l’-o-lam va-ed

V’-a-hav-ta eit A-do-nai E-Io-he-cha b’-ehol l’-vav-cha uv’-ehol naf-sh’-cha uv’-ehol m’-o-de-eha. V’-ha-yu ha-d’-va-rim ha-eileh a-sher a-nochi m’-tzav’-eha ha-yom al l’-va-ve-cha. V’-shinan-tam l’-va-ne-cha v’-di-bar-ta bam b’-shiv-t’-cha b’-vei-te-cha uv’-Iech-t’-eha va-de-rech uv’-shoch-b’-cha uv’-ku-me-cha. Uk’shar-tam l’-ot al ya-de-eha v’-ha-yu I’-at-ta-fot bein ei-ne-eha. Uch’-tav-tam al m’-zu-zot bei-te-cha u-vish-a-re-cha.

The word “Shema” means to listen and to notice. “Echad” means “one”. The shema is often described as noticing and celebrating the oneness of the divine.

VeShamru/And the children shall Keep...

Veshamru venei yisrael et haShabbat la’asot et hashabbat ledorotam berit olam.

Beini u’vein benei yisrael (benei yisrael) ot hi le’olam

ki sheishet yamim asa Adonai (asa Adonai) et hashamayim ve’et ha’aretz

uvayom hashevi’i (shavat) vayinafash.

The people Israel shall guard the Sabbath, to make it throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant between Me and the people Israel for all time, that in six days the Eternal made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day the Eternal rested and renewed the Divine spirit.

Preparing to Pray

(from Rebbe Nachman’s “Likutei T’filot”)

I pray that I will find the strength to be alone, to stand among the trees and grasses and talk to You.

May the grasses, the trees and plants, awaken as I come, and send their life-force into my prayer; so that my speech and thoughts will be made whole.

I pray that the power of life pulsing through all growing things will flow through me, and I will know that everything is Oneness.

I pray, I ask, spirit of all life, hear these words that pour out from my heart. I stand before You, like the water, I lift my hands to You. Grant me strength to stand alone. And I’ll sing my soul, I’ll sing my soul.

“Amidah” literally means “to stand”. When Amidah-ing it is good to face east, towards Jerusalem and towards sunrise inspiration.

It is good to begin and enter the Amidah by taking three steps backwards, then three steps forwards, then stand in Amidah.

There is a written Amidah text and there is also the personal amidik prayer of the heart.

There should be no side talking during amidah.

Inside of the Amidah prayer there can be expressions of gratitude, asking, wishing, forgiveness, celebration, listening and more!

Basically it is a time to experience or imagine that you are standing before the creator of the uni-verse, the source of all life...