Ramah Kabbalat Shabbat Siddur

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The Marci and Andrew Spitzer 2003 Tefillah Project In honor of our children Talia, Eitan, Sigal, Gilad and Grama Mary Barnhard

Created & Compiled by: Sarra Alpert & Hillary Gardenswartz Camp Ramah in California 2003 Edited by:

Zachary Lasker

Hebrew & Layout:

David Ross

Special Thanks to:

Rabbi Daniel Greyber, Eve Wettstein, Dr. Walter Hertzberg,

Executive Director: Assistant Director:

Hanhallah & Tzevet 2003

Rabbi Daniel Greyber Zachary Lasker

Proogram Coordinator:

Cultural Arts Director:

Eve Wettstein David Ross

A few words on Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv...

It’s late on a Friday afternoon, the table is set for Shabbat dinner, you are dressed in clean beautiful clothes, ready and waiting to welcome in Shabbat. You head off to shul to say tefillot. Could you ever imagine NOT saying Kabbalat Shabbat? Singing those fun melodies and getting into the spirit of Shabbat helps ease us into Ma’ariv. But believe it or not, Kabbalat Shabbat is not an ancient service that dates back to biblical days.

Kabbalat

Shabbat began during the days of the Tzfat Kabbalists who would go out into the fields to commune with nature and reflect upon the incoming Shabbat. The essence of the service

and its popularity spread to other parts of the world, where it eventually became accepted as an important part of Friday night tefillot. Kabbalat Shabbat, therefore, makes a powerful

statement on the continually evolving nature of Judaism and the importance of adaptation and change.

Kabbalat Shabbat not only gives us time and space upon which to reflect on the incoming Shabbat, but also acts as a “warm-up” to Ma’ariv. Ma’ariv was first chanted in the syna-

gogue during the early Talmudic period. Because there was the danger and fear of walking home alone after nightfall, additions were added to the Ma’ariv service to allow the latecomers the chance to catch up and not be left behind. For example, the Amidah is

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peated on Friday nights whereas the weekday Ma’ariv Amidah has no repetition. Much of

the Ma’ariv service delves into the themes of protection against the dangers that are prevalent at night. We ask God to protect us and watch over us in this uncertain time.

The Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv services together allow us to reflect upon the beauty

and tranquility of Shabbat. We welcome in the Shabbat Queen and ask protection against evil and danger.

The Friday night service is also a time to meditate on where you have come from and where you are going. One modern rabbi asks each person at his Shabbat meal to share three things that have brought that person to his family’s Shabbat table. What are things that have happened to you this week that were good? What about things that were not so good? Who did you meet?

What did you talk about? What changes occurred in your life? And looking even farther back, what are bigger things that have brought you to this particular Shabbat, at the end of this particular week? What events or choices in your life, in your parents’ lives, in your history, and in the world brought you to where you are right now? There is a synagogue in Jerusalem where, each Shabbat, the congregation takes part of their prayer time during the Friday night service to reflect on where they have been and what they have been doing each day of the week leading up to Shabbat. Take some time during this service to think about all these questions of where you are coming from, so that you may even better appreciate where you are right now and where you want to go from here. “Ushmor tzeitenu u’voenu”: “May God guard us in our comings and our goings.” —from Hashkivenu

“It is good to sing unto God.” This means: It is good if a person can have God sing within.

– Elimelech of Lishensk

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               

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

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Soul mate, loving G-d, compassion’s gentle source, Take my disposition and shape it to Your will.

Like my darting deer will I rush to You. Before your glorious Presence humbly will I bow.

Let Your sweet love delight me with its thrill, Because no other dainty will my hunger still.

How splendid is Your light, illumining the world.

My soul is weary yearning for Your love’s delight.

Please, good G-d, do heal her; reveal to her Your face, The pleasure of Your Presence, bathed in Your grace.

She will find strength and healing in Your sight; Forever will she serve You, grateful, with all her might.

What mercy stirs in You since days of old, my G-d.

Be kind to me, Your own child; my love for You requite.

With deep and endless longing I yearned for Your embrace.

To see my light in Your light, basking in Your grace.

My heart’s desire, find me worthy in Your sight.

Shabbos comes and Shabbos is everywhere. You can't walk out on Shabbos.

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- Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, “Let there be light!” so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of light.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

  —Psalm 95

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Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29

 

Lecha Dodi

 

What secrets are referred to here?

Yedid Nefesh

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

This psalm mentions asher beyado mechakrei  aretz: “In God’s hand are the secrets of the earth.”

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    

Let us sing to God, we call out to the Rock of our salvation. We go forth to God in thanks, in song we call out to God. For God is great and is King over all other gods. For in God’s hands are the secrets of the Earth and the mountain peaks are His. His is the sea which He made, and the dry land which He created is in His hands. Come, let us acknowledge and bow, we bless before God who made us. For He is our God and we are His herds and sheep in His hand – even today, if we but listen to His voice. Do not harden your heart like at Merivah, like on the day of Massah in the desert; when Your ancestors tried Me; they tested Me, though they had seen My deeds. For forty years I was angry with the generation; and I said, ‘They are a sinful-hearted nation, and they do not know My ways. Therefore, I have sworn in My anger that they shall not enter My land of rest.

Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

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The end of this psalm refers to God’s anger and rebuke of the Jewish people.

How do you deal with anger? Can you think of Biblical stories where God was angry? How do we work through anger to make a better situation?

 —Psalm 96

       

This tefillah speaks a lot about nature praising God. How many nature references can you find?

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  

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

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      

Sing to God, a new song, sing to God – everyone on earth. Sing to God, bless His name; announce His salvation daily. Tell the other nations His glory, among all peoples, His wonders; for God is great and exceedingly lauded, awesome is He above all other gods. For all the gods of the other nations are nothings – but God made heaven! Glory and majesty are before Him, strength and beauty are in His Sanctuary. Acknowledge God, families of the peoples, acknowledge God’s honor and strength. Acknowledge God’s honorable name, take an offering and come to His courtyards. Bow to God in His intensely holy place, tremble before Him, everyone on earth. Declare among the peoples, ‘God rules, indeed, the world is fixed so that I cannot falter. He will judge the peoples with fairness.’ The heavens will be glad and the earth will rejoice, the sea and the trees of the forest will sing with joy – before God, for He will come, He will have come to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and peoples with His belief.

Shiru Ladonai – we sing to God. How does song help us connect to God? What are some of your favorite songs? Do they connect to God in any way?

How do we use song at camp?

Why is song such an important part of our camp community?

Shabbos is different from all other holidays. The Gemara explains that if there were no Jews in the world, there would be no Jewish holidays, but that Shabbos will always exist, even if there be no Jew to observe it. This is because on Shabbos something happens to the world, God opens the gates, and something so holy comes from heaven down to us. All we have to do is pick it up.

—Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

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—Psalm 97

V’hodu lezecher kodsho refers to praising God’s holy name.

Think of all the names we use for God. How many come to mind? What do those names mean? Which names do you personally use when you think of God? What are some of the names that people call you – your given name, your nickname, your relationships to people around you (brother, sister, friend, etc)?

What do those names mean?

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               

When God will reign, the world will rejoice; numerous islands will be glad. Cloud and fog will surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

Fire will go before Him and consume His enemies all around. His lightning bolts will illuminate the world; the inhabitants of the earth will see and tremble. Mountains will melt like wax before God, before the Master of the world. The heavens will speak of His righteousness and all the peoples will see His glory. Humiliated will be all who worship idols, who pride themselves in worthless gods; all the gods will bow to Him. Zion will hear and be glad, and the daughters of Judah will exult, because of Your judgments, God. For You, God, are supreme above all the earth; exceedingly exalted above all powers. Lovers of God – hate evil! He guards the lives of His devout ones, from the hand of the wicked He saves them. Light is sown for the righteous; and to the upright of heart, rejoice. Happy are the righteous in God, and they give grateful praise at the mention of His holy name.

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

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The beginning of this tefillah says tzedek u’mishpat mechon kiso.

The end says ohavei adonai sinu ra, shmor nefashot chasidav, myad rishayim yatzilem.”

Is there a connection between justice and righteousness?

 —Psalm 98

           

 Can any action be a praise to God? Are our actions holy, or are they already holy because we are created b’tzelem elohim?

What of our actions may not be holy?

How do we make our actions holy?

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A Psalm! Sing to God a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have helped Him. God has made known His salvation; in the eyes of the other nations His righteousness was revealed. He remembers His kindness and faithfulness to the House of Israel; all ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Call out to God, all inhabitants of the earth, open your mouths in joyous songs and play music. Play music to God on a harp, with harp and voice of song. With trumpets and shofar sound, call out before the King, Hashem. The sea and its fullness will roar, the world and those who dwell therein. Rivers will clap hands, mountains will exult together – Before God, for He will have arrived to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and peoples with fairness.

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

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In this tefillah, there are listed physical, tangible ways that we can praise God. What are they?

What other physical acts can we do to praise God?

Do not think that the words of prayer as you say them go up to God. It is not the words themselves that ascend; it is rather the burning desire of your heart that rises like smoke toward heaven. If your prayer consists only of words and letters, and does not contain your heart’s desire, how can it rise up to God? - Or HaMeir

 — Psalm 99

    

“You founded fairness” – Think of something unfair in the world or in your life.

How can you change it?

How can you deal with  situations that you think are unfair?

Try to think of famous Biblical stories in which Moses and Aaron appear.

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           

When God will reign nations will tremble. Before Him who is enthroned on Cherubim, the earth will quake. God is great in Zion and is exalted above all nations. They will praise Your great and awesome Name; it is holy! Strong is the king, who loves justice. You founded fairness.

The justice and righteousness of Jacob, You have made. Exalt the Lord, our God, and bow at His footstool; He is holy! Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel among those who call out His name – they called out to God and He answered them. In a pillar of cloud He spoke to them; they obeyed His testimonies and whatever decree He gave them. Lord, our God, You answered them. A forgiving God were You to them – and an Righter of wrongs for their sins.

Exalt the Lord, our God, and bow at His holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom



In this psalm, it says that God loves us and also forgives us when we are wrong.

When did you do something wrong but were forgiven? Why is it important to forgive?

Why is it also important to let people know that they have done something wrong?

 —Psalm 29

Do you recognize this psalm from any other service?

Which one?

Torah Service

This psalm talks a lot about miracles.

What do you think are miracles that you see around you every day?

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              

A psalm to David! Acknowledge God, divine beings, acknowledge God’s glory and strength. Acknowledge the glory of His name; bow down to God, Majestic in holiness. The voice of God is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, God is over the numerous waters. The voice of God is power; the voice of God is majesty; the voice of God breaks cedars; God shatters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, Sirion, like a young wild ox. The voice of God kindles flames of fire; the voice of God shakes the desert; God shakes the wilderness of Kadesh; the voice of God causes hinds to calve, and strips forests bare; while in His temple all say “Glory!” The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood; the Lord sits enthroned, king forever. God gives strength to his people, God will bless His people in peace.

Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom



This psalm also often refers to the power of God’s words and voice.

What is the importance of someone’s words?

What about someone’s voice? Are they the same?

How do you use your voice in speech and in song?

Count the number of times the word “kol” appears in this psalm.

What is one thing that you do to welcome in Shabbat?

     

 Rabbi Hanina robed   himself and stood at sunset of Shabbat  eve and exclaimed: 

‘Come and let us go forth to welcome the queen Shabbat.’ R. Yannai donned his robes on Shabbat eve and exclaimed ‘Come, O bride!

Come, O bride!”

- Shabbat 119a

Ki hi m’kor habracha…

Right here, the tefillah speaks of blessings.

The Zohar teaches that all of our blessings during the week come as a result of Shabbat’s holiness. How is Shabbat a source of blessings?

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  Come my Beloved to welcome the bride – Let us greet the Shabbat presence!

Keep and Remember – in a single utterance the One and only God made us hear.

God is One and His name is One, for renown, for beauty, and for praise.

To welcome the Shabbat, come let us go, for she is the source of blessing; From the beginning, from antiquity she is regal, last in deed, but first in thought.

Sanctuary of the King, royal city – get up and go from amid the disorder, You have dwelled too long in the valley of weeping. He will be compassionate to you with kindness.

Shake off the dust – get up! Wear your beautiful clothes, My people, Through the son of Jesse, the Bethlehemite! Come close to my soul – redeem it!

Wake up! Wake up! For Your light comes and awakens my light; Awaken, awaken, sing my words, the glory of God is revealed to you.

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

 The author of Lecha Dodi hid his name as an acrostic within the poem.

Can you find it?

Hitoreri, hitoreri, ki va orech kumi uri…

Right here, the tefillah tells everyone to wake up and appreciate God by seeing light and listening to the song of Shabbat.

First, look around you – look for the light in our makom tefillah.

Then, close your eyes – listen to the sound of everyone singing the tefillah.

In this tefillah, there are multiple references to happiness and celebration.

On Shabbat, what are we celebrating? What makes you happy?

What are you specifically celebrating this Shabbat?

 Why is Shabbat a bride?

A midrash tells this story: God had just completed creating the world and the seven-day week. Heaven was filled with the joy of this accomplishment. In the midst of all the merriment, however, crying could be heard from behind God’s throne. An angel was sent to investigate.

Within a few moments, Shabbat was brought, sobbing, before God. A hush fell over heaven.

God asked Shabbat, “Why are you crying?

What has upset you?”

Shabbat answered, “I’m all alone. Everyone has a partner except me – the first day is a friend of the second day, the third day is a partner to the fourth day, and the fifth day can always count on the sixth . That leaves me, the seventh day, all alone.” “Now I understand your sadness,” replied God. “From this time forward, you, Shabbat, will be the bride of the people Israel. Together, you will face the present and the future. Neither you nor Israel need ever feel lonely. You will always have each other.”

         

Do not feel ashamed, do not feel humiliated; Why are you downcast? Why are you unsatisfied?

In you will My afflicted people find shelter, as the city is built upon its hilltop.

May your oppressor be destroyed, and may those who devoured you be cast far off.

Your God will rejoice over you like a groom’s rejoicing over his bride.

To the right and to the left, you shall spread out, and you shall praise the might of God, Through the man descended from Peretz, then we shall be glad and rejoice.

Enter in peace, the crown of her husband, in gladness and in rejoicing, Amongst the faithful of the treasured nation enter, O bride! Enter, O bride!

Why is Shabbat a bride? What are other symbols you might use to represent Shabbat?

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Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom

 Lecha Dodi was written in the 16th century by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, one of the mystics and scholars living in the city of Tzfat in Israel. The community of scholars in Tzfat loved the idea of welcoming the Shabbat bride.

When they created Kabbalat Shabbat sometimes they would go into the fields to physically welcome Shabbat.

By turning to the entrances of our sanctuaries and bowing, we also welcome Shabbat with our movements as well as our language.

Why does our movement help welcome Shabbat?

Couldn’t we just think about it?

She is Shabbat!… Her face shines with a light from beyond: She is crowned by the holy people, and all of them are crowned with new souls. Then there is the beginning of prayer, to bless her with joy and beaming faces…”

- Zohar

  —Psalm for

Shabbat

    

This psalm was recited by the Levites in the Temple on Shabbat.

Think about each day of the week. How do you distinguish between the days?

What are words, activities, foods, or feelings that you associate with Monday?

What about Thursday?

Saturday?

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 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi

 

Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92)

 

Psalm 93

  

Kaddish Yatom



   Tzadik katamar  yifrach: What     A song for the Shabbat day. It is good to praise God, to sing to Your name, on high. To declare Your kindness in the morning and Your faithfulness at night. With a tenstringed harp and lyre, with recitation and lyre. You have gladdened me, God, by Your deed; I shout for joy at Your handiwork. How great are Your works, God, how deep Your designs! An unrefined man cannot know; a fool cannot understand this. Though the wicked sprouts like grass, and though all evildoers blossom, it is only that they may be destroyed forever. And You are lofty, God, for all time. For Your enemies, God, Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be separated. You raise my horn high like that of a wild ox; I am soaked in freshening oil. I will see the defeat of my watchful opponents; my ears hear of the downfall of my attackers. The righteous will bloom like a date-palm; they thrive like a cedar in Lebanon; planted in the House of God, in the courts of our God they blossom. In old age they still produce fruit; they are full of sap and freshness, attesting that God is upright, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.

qualities make a person righteous?

Think of one person you know in your life who you think is righteous.

Why do you think they are righteous?

Who do you think is a righteous person from history? Why? Who do you think is a righteous person in the world right now? Why?

The Sabbath is more than a day, more than a name for a seventh part of the week. It is eternity within time, the spiritual underground of history.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man



-Psalm 93

         

 Yedid Nefesh Psalms 95-99 Psalm 29 Lecha Dodi Psalm for Shabbat (Psalm 92) Psalm 93 Kaddish Yatom



God is King, He is robed in grandeur; the Lord is robed, He is bound with strength. The world stands firm; it cannot be shaken. Your throne stands firm from of old; from eternity You have existed. The ocean sounds, God, the ocean sounds its thunder; the ocean sounds its pounding. From the thunder of the mighty waters, more majestic than the breakers of the sea is God, majestic on high. We fully believe in Your darkness; holiness befits Your house, God, for all times.

 —Mounrner’s Kaddish

           

Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba b’alma di v’ra khir’utei, v’yamlikh malkhutei b’hayeikhon u-v’yomeikhon u-v’hayei d’khol beit yisrael, ba-agala u-vi-z’man kariv, v’imru amen.

Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varakh l’alam u-l’almei almaya.

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Yitbarakh v’yishtabah v’yitpa’ar v’yitromam v’yitnasei, v’yit-hadar v’yit’aleh v’yithalal sh’mei d’kudsha, b’rikh hu l’ela (l’ela mi-kol) min kol birkhata v’shirata, tushb’hata v’nehemata da-amiran b’alma, v’imru amen.

Y’hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya v’hayim aleinu v’al kol yisrael, v’imru amen.

Oseh shalom bi-m’romav, hu ya’aseh shalom aeinu v’al kol yisrael v’imru amen.

Creation, we are taught, is not an act that happened once upon a time, once and for ever. The act of bringing the world into existence is a continuous process. God called the world into being, and that call goes on…Time is God’s gift to the world of space.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

 

  Barchu

Barchu: We bless God.

 

How can we bless God when God is the source of all blessing?  To get around  this problem, some people  translate  Barchu as  praise.  What is the  difference between blessing and praising?

Bless Adonai, the Blessed One! Which do you think is more Blessed is Adonai, the Blessed One, forever and ever. appropriate here?

Maariv Aravim focuses on cycles of time.

Which cycles in your life are important to you?

Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, that with His word brings on evenings. With wisdom opens gates, with understanding changes times, switches the seasons, and orders the stars in their heavenly constellations as He wills. He creates day and night, removing light before darkness and darkness before light. He causes day to pass and brings night, and separates between day and night – God, Master of Legions, is His name. May the living and enduring God continuously reign over us, forever. Blessed are You, God, who brings on evenings.

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Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

This tefillah also talks a lot about the differences and similarities between night and day.

What activities do you associate with daytime? Which ones with nighttime? How would your life be different without the a set day and nighttime?

Why is it important to have times of both light and darkness, joy and sadness, in your life? What do we learn from our happy times?

What do we learn from our difficult times?

How are our joys and our difficulties connected to each other?

Shabbos invites all those who are tired of walking slowly, who only cover a spiritual inch per lifetime on their journeys. Shabbos invites all those who have traveled through the valleys of sadness, of waiting and waiting all the time.

Shabbos is to get to the top of the mountain in one second, and there discover even higher mountains that we may have never ever seen before.

—Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

  Barchu

 Does this tefillah sound like any other tefillah that we say during the day? Which one?

Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer

      

Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu

What types of love do we have in our lives?

How do we show the different people in our lives that we love them?

With eternal love have You loved the House of Israel, Your nation. Torah and commandments, laws and statutes to us You have taught. Therefore Lord, our God, when we lie down and when we wake, we will discuss Your laws and we will rejoice in the words of Your Torah and in Your commandments forever. For they are our life and the length of our days and on them we will meditate day and night. May You not remove Your love from us forever. Blessed are You, God, who loves His nation Israel.

How do we know someone loves us even if they are not there? How can you love something that you can’t see or touch? What are ways we use our senses to experience God?

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Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

This tefillah is all about how much God loves us.

How does God love us?

What does it mean for God to love us as a nation?

What does it mean for God to love us as individuals?

The rabbis of the Talmud explained that there is a secret message hidden in the word levavcha (with all your heart). Levavcha has two Vet letters. (Do you see them?) The Talmud explains that the two Vet letters stand for the two sides of your heart, the animal side and the Godlike side. We are commanded to love God with all our heart – that means both the animal side and the Godlike side.

It then explains that the secret to loving God is to use both sides to do holy things.

 

  Barchu Maariv Aravim

      

Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer

Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha

Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah

What is the difference between your mind, your body, and your soul?

How can you love differently with each of those?

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Amidah Repetition

Hear O Israel, the Lord is Our God, the Lord is One.

Kaddish Shalem Aleinu

Bless the name of His honorable sovereignty forever.

And you shall love the Lord, you God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these things that I command you today be upon your heart. Teach them to your children and speak of them while you sit in your home, while you walk on the way, when you lie down and when you wake up. Bind them as a sign upon your arm and let them be a symbol between your eyes. And write them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.

What does “Oneness” mean?

Does it have to do with numbers?

(Hint: what does monotheistic mean?) Does it have to do with power? Does it have to do with our relationship to God?

Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Rashi was a famous Biblical commentator.

He had a lot of problems with the commandment “You must love the Lord your God.” Rashi said, “It is impossible to command love.

Love is something that grows.” Rashi then explained, “What God actually wants us to do is to follow the mitzvot in the Torah – these are things that show love.”

A rabbi had a son who used to wander off into the woods. One day, the rabbi decided to ask his son why he went wandering each day. The boy said to his father, “I go there to find God.” “Well,” the father said slowly, “That’s a very good thing. But, my son, don’t you know that God is the same everywhere?” “Yes,” the boy answered. “But I am not.”

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  Barchu

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Then the anger of God will blaze against you. He will restrain the heavens and there will be no rain, and ground will not yield its produce, and you will quickly be banished from the good land which God gives to you. Place these words of Mine upon your heart and upon you soul; bind them for a sign upon your arm and let them be a symbol between your eyes. Teach them to your children, speak of them, while you sit in your home, while you walk on the way, when you lie down and when you wake up. And write them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates. In order that you prolong your days and the days of your children upon the ground that God has sworn to your ancestors, to give to them, like the days of the heaven on the earth.

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Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer

Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

To be a Jew is to affirm the world without being enslaved to it; to be a part of civilization and to go beyond it; to conquer space and to sanctify time, sanctification of history.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel, God In Search Of Man

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 Maariv Aravim   Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/  V’haya/Vayomer   Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha   Hashkivenu  V’shamru  Chatzi Kaddish And God said to Moses saying: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them that they are to make themselves tzitzit on the corners of their garments, throughout their generations. And they are to place upon the tzitzit of each corner a thread of techelet, And it shall be for tzitzit, that you may see it and remember all the commandments of God and do them; and not explore after your heart and after your eyes from which you stray.

So that you may remember and perform all My commandments, and be holy to your God. I am the Lord, your God, who has taken you out from the land of Egypt to be a God to you; I am the Lord your God – it is true. The Lord, your God is truth.

Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Tzitzit are a symbol of our devotion to God. Why do we need symbols?

What other symbols do we have in Judaism?

Why do we say this paragraph at night when we are not even commanded to wear tzitzit? The mitzvah described in this prayer is to see the tzitzit, and it therefore only applies to daytime when there is light to see by, but we still recite the paragraph. Why is it important to remember symbols even when we can’t see them?

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        Barchu  Maariv Aravim   Ahavat Olam  Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer  V’emuna/  Emet Mi Chamocha   Hashkivenu  V’shamru  Chatzi Kaddish

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     

Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Truth and faithful is all this, and it is firmly established for us that He is the Lord our God, and there is none but Him, and we are His people Israel. He redeems us from the hand of kings, our King who delivers us from the palm of all the cruel tyrants; He is the God who brings judgment on our oppressors and who brings just retribution upon all enemies of our soul; who performs great deeds that are beyond comprehension, and wonders beyond number. Who set our soul in life and did not allow our foot to falter. Who led us upon the heights of our enemies and raised our pride above all who hate us; who did miracles for us and vengeance upon Pharaoh; signs and wonders on the land of the offspring of Ham; who struck with His anger all the firstborn of Egypt and took out His people Israel from their midst to eternal freedom; Who brought His children through the split parts of the Sea of Reeds while those who pursued them and hated them He caused to sink into the depths. And His children saw His power; they praised and thanked to His Name. And His Kingship they accepted upon themselves willingly. Moses and the Children of Israel raised their voices to You in song with abundant gladness – and they all said: Who is like You among the heavenly powers, God? Who is like You, mighty in holiness, awesome for praise, doing wonders? Your children saw Your majesty, as You split the sea before Moses: ‘This is my God!’ they exclaimed, then they said: ‘God shall reign forever and ever!’ And it was also said: ‘For God has redeemed Jacob and delivered him from a power mightier than he.’ Blessed are You God, who redeemed Israel.

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 Much of the language in this tefillah is similar to the language in tefillat haderech, the prayer that one says before traveling. What is particularly frightening about both nighttime and traveling? Are there similar dangers? Why are they both times in which we ask for peace and for God to watch over us and guard us?

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam

        Lay us down to sleep, Lord our God, in peace and awaken us, our King, to life; and spread over us the shelter of Your peace. Fix us with good counsel from before Your presence, and save us for Your name’s sake. Protect us, remove from us enemies, plague, sword, famine, and sorrow; and remove evil forces from before us and behind us and in the shadow of Your wings shelter us – for God who protects and saves us are You; for God, the gracious and merciful King, are You. Safeguard our going and coming, for life and for peace from now to eternity. And spread over us the shelter of Your peace. Blessed are You, God, who spreads the shelter of peace on us, on all of his people Israel and on Jerusalem.

How is this tefillah particular to night?

What is especially scary about nighttime?

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Sometimes hargaah is also called hashkava, like the name of this tefillah. What is your favorite hargaah?

How do your counselors help to get you ready for the nighttime?

Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Ushmor tzeitenu u’voenu: Guard our coming and our going.

What does this mean to you?

What is the connection between entrances/exits and the beginning/end of the day?

What is special about these times?

Even if one is a person of very high rank and does not as a rule attend to the marketing or the other household chores, he should nevertheless himself perform one of these tasks in preparation for the Shabbat, for that is his way of honoring it. There were some among the sages of old who split firewood for the cooking; others cooked or salted meat, plaited wicks, lit lamps, or went to market to buy food or drink for the Shabbat, although none of these sages customarily performed such tasks on weekdays. Indeed, the more one does in the way of such preparation, the more praiseworthy he is.

- Rambam, Mishnah Torah Book Three 30:6

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam

     And the children of Israel shall keep the Shabbat, to make the Shabbat an eternal covenant for their generations. Between Me and the Children of Israel it is a sign forever that in six days God made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He stopped and rested.

Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

This tefillah is originally from Exodus 31:16-17.

God spoke these words to Moses, who passed them on to the Children of Israel. Why do you think God wanted to talk about Shabbat while the Israelites were wandering in the desert?

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Think of all the things that God created on each day of Creation.

Why did God rest after creating the world? Why do we create things all week but then take a break from creation on Shabbat? Why is that rest between weeks full of work and creation so important? What are some of the things that we create during the week? What are some of the things that we focus on during Shabbat?

         

 Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu

Reader: Hallowed and enhanced may He be throughout the world of His own creation. May He cause His sovereignty soon to be accepted, during our own life and the life of all Israel. And let us say: Amen.

Congregation and Reader: Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varakh l’alam u-l’almei almaya.

May He be praised throughout all time.

V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Reader: Glorified and celebrated, lauded and praised, acclaimed and honored, extolled and exalted may the Holy One be, praised beyond all song and psalm, beyond all tributes which mortals can utter. And let us say: Amen

Some Introduction to the Shabbat Amidah...

In all of the week’s services, the beginning and closing brachot (blessings) of the Amidah are the same. The main differences come in the middle sections, in which the brachot are completely different on Shabbat and on weekdays. Also, on Shabbat, these middle brachot are different in each of the services – at Maariv (evening), Shacharit (morning), Musaf (additional morning Amidah) and Mincha (afternoon). In each of the services, the main theme of the bracha is kedushat hayom, the holiness of Shabbat, but this holiness is expressed differently every time we pray. The theme of the middle bracha for this Amidah is the connection of Shabbat to the creation of the world. In the Amidah for Shacharit, Shabbat is described in terms of its connection to the giving of the Torah at Sinai. In the Amidah of Musaf, the bracha talks about Shabbat’s connection to the Temple service and doing something extra on Shabbat. In the Mincha Amidah, Shabbat is linked to the messianic era. Each of these brachot develops the theme of the special holiness of Shabbat in a unique and different way, each one addressing a different aspect of Shabbat’s central place in Judaism. Through these, the brachot tell a story about the Jewish people. When we recite these brachot, we connect ourselves to this story.

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At this point in the service, we take three steps forward and three steps back. At the end of the Amidah, we do the same. One explanation for this is that when we recite the Amidah, we are entering God’s holy space, and we need to exit our world first and then enter God’s.

Adonai Sfatai is the beginning of a citation from Psalms which continues: “… for You have no delight in sacrifice.”

The Amidah takes the place of the sacrifices which were offered in the Temple three times a day. Here, the rabbis not only make that comparison, but imply that prayer may be even better than sacrifice.

According to midrash, Israel said to God, “We are impoverished now that we cannot offer sacrifices.”

God answered, “I seek words from you now, as it is written, ‘Take words with You when you return to God.’”

 

 Barchu Maariv Aravim

   

Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya Vayomer Emet V’emunah/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu



V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish



Amidah Avot Gevurot

My Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise.

Blessed are You, Lord, our God and the God of our forefathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God Jacob; the great, mighty, and awesome God, the supreme God, who bestows loving kindnesses and creates everything, who remembers the kindnesses of the Patriarchs and brings a Redeemer to their children’s children, for His Name’s sake, in love. King, Helper, Savior, and Shield. Blessed are you, God, Shield of Abraham.

Elohei Avraham, elohei Yitzchak, v’elohei Yaakov: Why is the word Elohei repeated three times, instead of just saying “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”?

What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God? What was different about each of our ancestors’ relationships with God?

Some synagogues now expand the Avot to include “God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Leah, and God of Rachel.”

What are some reasons to do this? What are some reasons

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Kedushat Hayom Hoda’ah Oseh Shalom Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

We bow at the beginning and the end of the Avot, when we say Baruch Atah Adonai.

The tradition is to bend your knees as you say Baruch, bend from the waist at Atah (although not too low, as some rabbis say that this looks like showing off), and straighten up at Adonai, as it is written: “God raises up those who are bowed down.”

 Somech noflim v’rofeh cholim: “A later blessing turns specifically to the role of healing, but the theme is already struck here, where it is the image of ‘the fallen’ that stands out. When people fall – physically, intellectually, or emotionally – it is necessary, though often difficult, to help them regain their standing. Recognizable, and often dramatic, examples include orthopedists and physical therapists who help people walk again; teachers who painstakingly teach those who have difficulty learning; and friends, relatives, or counselors who help the bereaved cope with loss. Supporting the fallen is often a normal and too little noticed part of day-to-day life; as an exercise of both power and goodness, it is nothing short of a godly act.” – Elliot Dorff

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu

Which of God’s powers are listed here? What is the connection between such big, hard-toimagine powers as raising the dead and less dramatic powers like supporting the fallen and healing the sick? How can we be like God in any of these cases?



Chatzi Kaddish

      

Amidah Avot Gevurot Kedushat Hayom (Blessing for the Holiness of Shabbat)

Hoda’ah Oseh Shalom Amidah Repetition

(You cause the wind to blow and the rain to fall)

You are forever mighty, my God, You resuscitate the dead; abundantly able to save.

He sustains the living with kindness, resuscitates the dead with abundant mercy, supports the fallen and heals the sick, releases the captives, and maintains His faith to those asleep in the dust. Who is like You, Master of mighty deeds, and who is like You, King of life and death, and makes salvation sprout! And You are faithful to give life to the dead. Blessed are You, Lord, who resuscitates the dead.

In your life, who helps raise you up when you fall? Who makes you feel better when you’re sad? Who takes care of you when you’re sick?

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V’shamru

Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

In the Talmud, resurrection is also used as a metaphor, by requiring that you recite the blessing “Blessed are You… who raises the dead” when you see someone for the first time in over a year. (Berachot

         

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu

You are holy and Your name is holy, and holy ones praise You every day, forever. Blessed are You, Lord, the holy God. You sanctified the seventh day for Your Name’s sake, the conclusion of the creation of heaven and earth. Of all days You blessed it, and of all times, You sanctified it – and so it is written in Your Torah: The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their multitudes. On the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created to make.

In some of the tefillot, Shabbat is compared to an inheritance. What are some things that people inherit?

How is Shabbat like an inheritance? What is the difference between an inheritance, a gift, and a reward? How is Shabbat like all of these?

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V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish

Amidah Avot Gevurot Kedushat Hayom (Blessing for the Holiness of Shabbat)

Hoda’ah Oseh Shalom Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

What does it mean to bless time?

What does it mean to make time holy? Why did God need to bless Shabbat and make it holy? What about Shabbat is inherently holy, and what parts of it do we make holy with our actions?

   At this point in the tfilah,   there is a lot   of talk about the  Barchu  Maariv Aravim importance  Ahavat Olam of our ShabVayo      Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya bat rest. mer  Emet V’emuna/ Why is it so  Mi Chamocha important to  rest on  Hashkivenu  V’shamru Shabbat?  Chatzi Kaddish How do you  rest on  Amidah Shabbat at  Avot  camp?  Gevurot How do you   rest on Kedushat Hayom  (Blessing for the Shabbat at  Holiness of Shabbat) home dur Hoda’ah ing the  year? What  Oseh Shalom does “rest” Amidah Repetition mean to Our God and the God of our forefathers, may You be pleased Kaddish Shalem you?

Aleinu with our rest. Sanctify us with Your commandments and give us our share in Your Torah; satisfy us from Your goodness and gladden us with Your salvation, and purify our heart to serve You truthfully. Lord, our God, with love and favor grant us Your holy Shabbat and may Israel, the sanctifiers of Your name, place rest on it. Blessed are You, God, who makes Shabbat holy.

Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Be favorable, Lord, our God, toward Your people Israel and in their prayers. And restore the worship in the Holy of Holies of Your Temple. And their prayer accept with love and favor, and may the service of Your people Israel always be favorable to You. May our eyes see Your return to Zion in mercy. Blessed are You, Lord, who restores His presence to Zion.

Why is Shabbat so often connected with happiness and joy? What parts of Shabbat make you really happy? What is the connection between rest and happiness? Between community and happiness?

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                

 Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish

Amidah Avot Gevurot Kedushat Hayom (Blessing for the Holiness of Shabbat)

Hoda’ah Oseh Shalom

We gratefully thank You, for it is You who is Lord, our God and the God of our forefathers forever; Rock of our lives, shield of our salvation are You from generation to generation. We thank You and tell of Your praise, for our lives, which are dedicated in Your hand, and for our souls that are entrusted to You; for Your miracles that are with us every day; and for Your wonders and favors in every time – evening, morning, and afternoon. The Good One, for Your mercy was never exhausted, and the Compassionate One, for Your kindnesses never ended – we always put our hope in You.

Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

For all these, may Your name be blessed and exalted, our King, continually forever and ever.

Everything alive will know You, Selah! And praise Your name in truth, the God of our salvation and help, Selah! Blessed are You, God, Great is Your name, and to You it is pleasant to give thanks.

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During the week, when we thank God in this section, we are thanking God for all of the things for which we have just asked. On Shabbat, when we don’t ask for things, we are just reinforcing all of the “thank you”s we’ve just given God for Shabbat. Whether a weekday or holiday, we always end by thanking God, so as to remember to appreciate all of the wonderful gifts in our lives.

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What do you think peace means?

             

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/V’haya Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish

Amidah Avot Gevurot

Establish abundant peace on Your people Israel and on all the inhabitants of the earth, forever, for You are King, Master of all peace. May it be good in Your eyes to bless Your people Israel at every time and every hour with Your peace. Blessed are You, God, who blesses His people Israel with peace.

My God, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking lies. To those who curse me, let my soul be silent; and let my soul be like dust to everyone. Open my heart to Your Torah, then my soul will pursue Your commandments. As for all those who think evil against me, speedily nullify their counsel and destroy their thoughts. Act for Your Name’s sake; act for Your right hand’s sake; act for the sake of Your holiness; act for Your Torah’s sake. That Your beloved ones may be given rest; let Your right hand save, and respond to me. May it be Your will that the expressions of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart find favor before You, God, my Rock and my Redeemer. He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace on us, and on all Israel. And let us say: Amen.

Kedushat Hayom (Blessing for the Holiness of Shabbat)

Hoda’ah Oseh Shalom Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

At this point in the service, many people take time for a personal prayer. There are several examples of personal prayers said by Rabbis from long ago, and Elohai N’tzor is one of them. It is believed to have been written by Mar bar Ravina, a sage from the late Babylonian era.

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You can take time here to create a personal prayer between you and God, or just to think. Be sure to respect this time for others by keeping it a quiet and peaceful time.

Rav Chisda said in Mar Ukba’s name: All who pray on the Shabbat eve and say “va’yechulu,” the two ministering angels who accompany man place their hands on his head and say to him “and your wickedness is taken away, and your sin eliminated.” It was taught by Rabbi Yosi son of Rav Yehudah saying: Two ministering angels accompany man on the eve of Shabbat from the synagogue to his home, one good angel and one evil angel. And when he arrives home and finds the candles burning, the table set, and the couch covered with a spread, the good angel says, “May it be Your will that it will be like this for another Shabbat.” And the evil angel unwillingly answers “Amen.” But if not, the evil angel says, “May it be Your will that it will be like this for another Shabbat.” And the good angel unwillingly responds “Amen.”

- Talmud, Masechet Shabbat 119b

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer

Repetition of the Amidah

Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah

        The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their multitudes. On the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created to make.

Blessed are You, Lord, our God and the God of our forefathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God Jacob; the great, mighty, and awesome God, the supreme God, Creator of heaven and earth.

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Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

More than the Jewish people has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jewish people.

– Ahad Ha-am

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Repetition of the Amidah

 Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam

  Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer  V’emuna/  Emet Mi Chamocha   Hashkivenu  V’shamru  Chatzi Kaddish  Amidah  Amidah Repetition  Kaddish Shalem  Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

He shielded our forefathers with his word, who resuscitates the dead with His utterance, the Holy God, there is none like Him, who grants rest to His people on His holy Shabbat day, for He was pleased with them to grant them rest. Before Him we will serve with awe and fear and give thanks to His name every day continually with appropriate blessings.

God of grateful praise, Master of peace, who sanctifies the Shabbat and blesses the seventh day, and gives rest with holiness to a people filled with delight – in memory of the work of Creation.

Our God and the God of our forefathers, may You be pleased with our rest. Sanctify us with Your commandments and give us our share in Your Torah; satisfy us from Your goodness and gladden us with Your salvation, and purify our heart to serve You in truth. Grant us Lord, our God, with love and favor Your holy Shabbat and place her in Israel, the sanctifiers of Your name, rest on it. Blessed are You, God, who sanctifies the Shabbat.

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 Kavanah is direction to God and requires the redirection of the whole person. It is the act of bringing together the scattered forces of the self; the participation of heart and soul, not only of will and mind; the integration of the soul with the theme of the mitzvah.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man

  Barchu

               

Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom Yigdal

Hallowed and enhanced may He be throughout the world of His own creation. May He cause His sovereignty soon to be accepted, during our own life and the life of all Israel. And let us say: Amen.

May He be praised throughout all time.

Glorified and celebrated, lauded and praised, acclaimed and honored, extolled and exalted may the Holy One be, praised beyond all song and psalm, beyond all tributes which mortals can utter. And let us say: Amen May the prayers and pleas of the whole House of Israel be accepted by our Father in Heaven. And let us say: Amen.

Let there be abundant peace from Heaven, with life’s goodness for us and for all the people Israel. And let us say: Amen.

He who brings peace to His universe will bring peace to us and to all the people Israel. And let us say: Amen.

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                    

  Barchu Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu

It is our duty to praise the Master of all, to give greatness to the molder of creation, for He has not made us like the nations of the lands and has not placed on us like the families of the earth; for He has not assigned our portion like theirs, and our lot is not like all their multitudes. And we bend our knees, bow, and thank before the King who reigns over kings, the Holy One, Blessed is He. He stretches out heaven and establishes earth’s foundation, whose glorious abode is in the highest heaven above, and His powerful presence is in the loftiest heights. He is our God and there is none other. True is our King, there is nothing beside Him, as it is written in His Torah: ‘You are to know this day and take to your heart that God is the only God – in heaven above and on the earth below – there is none other.’

Therefore we put our hope in You, Lord our God, that we may soon see Your mighty beauty, to remove hateful idolatry from the earth, and false gods will be utterly cut off, to fix the earth through the Almighty’s sovereignty. And all humanity will call upon Your Name, to turn all the earth’s wicked toward You. All the world’s inhabitants will recognize and know that to You every knee should bend, every tongue should swear. Before You, Lord, our God, they will bend every knee and fall down to you. And they will give honor to Your glorious name, and they will all accept upon themselves the yoke of Your kingship that You may reign over them soon, forever. For the kingdom is Yours and You will reign forever in glory. As it is written in Your Torah: God will rule forever.

And it is said: God will be King over all the world – on that day God will be One and His name will be One.

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Kaddish Yatom Yigdal



—Mounrner’s Kaddish

  Barchu

           

Maariv Aravim Ahavat Olam Shema/V’ahavta/ V’haya/Vayomer Emet V’emuna/ Mi Chamocha Hashkivenu V’shamru Chatzi Kaddish Amidah Amidah Repetition Kaddish Shalem Aleinu Kaddish Yatom

Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba b’alma di v’ra khir’utei, v’yamlikh malkhutei b’hayeikhon u-v’yomeikhon u-v’hayei d’khol beit yisrael, ba-agala u-viz’man kariv, v’imru amen.

Yigdal

Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varakh l’alam u-l’almei almaya.

Yitbarakh v’yishtabah v’yitpa’ar v’yitromam v’yitnasei, v’yit-hadar v’yit’aleh v’yit-halal sh’mei d’kudsha, b’rikh hu l’ela (l’ela mi-kol) min kol birkhata v’shirata, tushb’hata v’nehemata da-amiran b’alma, v’imru amen.

Y’hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya v’hayim aleinu v’al kol yisrael, v’imru amen.

Oseh shalom bi-m’romav, hu ya’aseh shalom aeinu v’al kol yisrael v’imru amen.

According to Halacha (Jewish law) children are required to recite Kaddish Yatom three times a day for 11 months when a parent passes away. Siblings, parents and spouses of the deceased recite this tefillah three times a day for 30 days.

Why the difference? One answer is that although you may always be able to have more children, get remarried or be fortunate enough to have another sibling, you can never replace your mother or father. Do you agree with this custom?

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What is the relationship between belief and power?

Is our belief in God based on seeing God’s power? What is your belief based on? What do you believe about God’s powers in the world?

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    Barchu  Maariv Aravim  Ahavat Olam  Shema/V’ahavta/  V’haya/Vayomer   Emet V’emuna/  Mi Chamocha  Hashkivenu  V’shamru  Chatzi Kaddish  Amidah   Amidah Repetition  Kaddish Shalem  Aleinu  Kaddish Yatom

Exalted be the Living God and praised, He exists – unbounded by time is His existence. He is One – and there is no unity like His Oneness. Impenetrable and infinite is His Oneness. He has no resemblance of a body nor is He physical; His holiness has no any comparison. He preceded every being that was created – First, and nothing precedes His precedence. Behold! He is Master of the universe to every creature, He shows His greatness and His sovereignty. He granted His flow of prophecy to His treasured and beautiful people. No one in Israel like Moses rose up again – a prophet who perceived His vision clearly. God gave His people a Torah of truth, by means of His prophet, the most loyal of His household. God will never amend nor exchange His law for any other one, for all eternity. He scouts out and knows our hiddenmost secrets; He perceives a matter’s outcome at its beginning. He rewards man with kindness according to his deed; He places evil on the wicked according to his wickedness. By the End of Days He will send our Messiah, to redeem those longing for His final salvation. God will revive the dead in His abundant kindness – Blessed forever is His praised Name.

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Yigdal

If you had to describe Superman, what qualities would you give him?

What powers?

How does this relate to God?

Yigdal is based on the Thirteen Principles of Faith, a list of beliefs that Jews should hold. This was written by Moses Maimondes, also known as Rambam, a famous Jewish sage who lived in and around Morocco during the 1100’s. In addition to writing many books of commentary on Jewish text and Jewish law, Rambam also wrote some of the first important books of Jewish philosophy.