Kiddush

Enjoy the taste of the wine or grape juice and let it remind you of the holiness (kedushah) that always surrounds us if we can just remember to notice it.

Barukh atah Adonai eloheinu melekh ha-olam, borei pri ha-gafen.

Blessed are you Adonai our God, ruler of time and space, creator of the fruit of the vine.

FULL KIDDUSH some people begin with this paragraph (genesis 1:31-2:3): some people begin with this paragraph (genesis 1:31-2:3): begin or continue with full kiddush here: begin or continue with full kiddush here: some people begin with this paragraph (genesis 1:31-2:3): begin or continue with full kiddush here:

Va-y’hi erev va-y’hi voker, yom ha-shishi.

Va-y’khulu ha-shamayim v’ha-aretz v’khol tz’va·am.

Va-y’khal elohim ba-yom ha-shvi·i melakhto asher asah.

Va-yishbot ba-yom ha-shvi·i mikol melakhto asher asah.

Va-y’varekh elohim et yom ha-shvi·i va-y’kadesh oto.

Ki vo shavat mikol melakhto asher bara elohim la·asot.

Barukh atah Adonai eloheinu melekh ha-olam, borei pri ha-gafen.

Barukh atah Adonai eloheinu melekh ha-olam, asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav v’ratzah vanu, v’shabbat kodsho b’ahavah u-v’ratzon hinhilanu zikaron l’ma·aseh v’reishit.

Ki hu yom t’hilah l’mikra·ei kodesh, zekher litzi·at mitzrayim.

Ki vanu vaharta v’otanu kidashta mikol ha-amim, v’shabbat kodsh’kha b’ahavah u-v’ratzon hinhaltanu.

Barukh atah Adonai, m’kadesh ha-shabbat.

And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. The heavens and the earth, and all they contain, were completed. On the seventh day God finished the work, ceasing from all work on the seventh day.

Then God blessed the seventh day, making it holy, for on it God ceased from all the work of creation.

Blessed are you Adonai our God, ruler of time and space, creator of the fruit of the vine.

Blessed are you, Adonai our God, ruler of time and space, who wanted us and made us holy through mitzvot, and who lovingly and willingly gave us Shabbat, a measure of God’s holiness, a symbol of creation.

It is the first of sacred times, a symbol of the Exodus from Egypt. You have chosen us and sanctified us from among all peoples by lovingly and willingly giving us Your holy Shabbat.

Blessed are you Adonai, who makes Shabbat holy.