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The Handbook to Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Path of Transformation for the Modern Jew

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A Spiritual and Ethical Compendium to the Torah and Talmud

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: EREV SHABBAT AT SEA: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: EREV SHABBAT AT SEA: JEWISH SPIRITUAL  RENEWAL
 
 
 
erev shabbat at sea WITH RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL
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Lighting the Shabbat Candles:
 
Ba-ruch a-ta Adonai, El-o-hie-nu, Me-lech ha olam, a-sher kid'sha-nu b'mitz-vo-tav, v'tz-i-va-nu l'had-lik ner shel Shab-bat.
 
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hallows us with mitzvoth, commanding us to kindle the light of Shabbat.
 
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Psalm 133
[together]
Hineh mah tov u'mah na-im, shevet achim gam yachad.
repeat
Hineh  mah  tov u'mah na-im , lalalalalalalalalalala
Hineh mah tov u'mah na-im, lalalalalalalalalalala
Hineh mah tov u'mah na-im, shevet achim gam yachad.
repeat
Hineh  mah  tov u'mah na-im , lalalalalalalalalalala
Hineh mah tov u'mah na-im, lalalalalalalalalalala
Hineh mah tov u'mah na-im, shevet achim gam yachad.
repeat
 
How good and how pleasant it is that brothers and sisters dwell in unity.
 
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Kabbalist Welcome of the Shabbat Bride:
 
Beloved come to meet the Bride, beloved come to greet Shabbat.
 
[together]
L'chah dodi lik-rat ka-lah, p'nei Shab-bat n'kab'lah. (repeat)
 
Sha-mor v'za-chor b'di-bur echad.
Hish-mi-a-nu El ham'yuch-ad.
Adonai echad ush'mo echad,
L'shem ul'ti-fert v'let'hi-lah.
 
L'chah dodi likrat kalah
p'nei Shabbat n'kab'lah.
(repeat)
 
(all rise and face the entrance door)
 
Bo-i v'shalom at-eret ba'lah,
gam bi-simcha uv'tzoh-lah,
toch ,e-mu-nei am g'ul-ah
bo-i cha-lah!!, bo-i cha-lah!!
 
(turn back to face the bimah)
 
L'chah dodi lik-rat kalah
p'nei Shabbat n'kab'lah.
(repeat)
Come to the People that keeps its faith. Enter o Bride! Enter o Bride.
____
(together, remain standing)
Bar'chu et Adonai ham'vorach!
Baruch Adonai ham'vorach l'olam va'ed!
Praise God to Whom all praise is due forever!
Praised be God, to Whom all praise is due, now and forever!
____
(Together,  sit)
This is an hour of change.
Within it we stand uncertain on the border of light.
Shall we draw back or cross over?
Where shall our hearts turn?
We stand quietly.
What lies before us?
Baruch atah Adonai, ha ma'ariv aravim.
Blessed are You, God, who brings on evening.
_____
(together)
A-ha-vat O-lam beit Israel am-cha a-hav-ta.
With Everlasting love You offered Your people Israel,
by teaching us Torah and mitzvoth, laws and precepts.
Therefore Adonai our God, when we lie down and when we rise up, we will meditate on Your laws and commandments.
We will rejoice in your Torah forever.
Day and night we will reflect on them for they are our life and doing them lengthens our days.
Never remove Your love from us.
Praise to You, Adonai, who loves His people Israel.
Baruch ata Adonai, ohev amo Yisrael.
 
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(rise, together)
Shema Yisrael. Adonai El-o-hei-nu, Adonai Echad!
Baruch shem, k'vod mal-chu-to , l'olam ve-ed.
Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Blessed is His glorious  kingdom forever and ever.
 
[together, sit]
V'a-hav-'ta eit A-don-ai El-o-hek-ha, b'khol l'vav-'kha,  uv'khol naf-'sh'-kha, uv-'khol m'o-de-kha.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

V'ha-yu had'va-rim ha'ei-leh a-sher a-nok-hi m'-tzav'-kha ha-yom al l'va-ve-kha.
And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart.

V'shi-nan'tam l'van-ek-ha v'di-bar'ta bam
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them

b'shiv't'kha b'vei-tek-ha uv'lekh'-t-'kha va-de-rekh uv'shakh-'b-'kha uv'ku-mek-ha
when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Uk'-shar-'tam l'ot al ya-dek-ha- v'ha-yu l'to-ta-fot bein ei-nek-ha.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Ukh'tav'tam al m'zu-zot bei-tek-ha u-vish'a-rek-ha.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
[together]
Ani Adonai Elo-heik-hem
. asher ho-tzei-'ti et'khem, mei'e-retz Mitz'ra-yim, li-h'yot lakh-hem leil-o-him.
Ani Adonai Elo-heik-hem .
I am the Lord, your God
who lead you from the land of Egypt to be a God to you.
I am the Lord, your God
____
[together]
Hash-ki-vei-nu Adonai Eloheinu L'Shalom.
Grant us God, that we lie down in Peace and raise us up, our Guardian, to life renewed.
Spread over us the shelter of Your peace.
Shelter us beneath your wings.
Distance us from wrong doing.
Baruch ata Adonai, ha-por-eis sukat shalom aleinu, v'al kol amo Yisrael v'al Ye-ru-sha-la-yim.
Blessed are Your Lord, whose Sukkah of peace is spread over all of Your people Israel and over Jerusalem.
______
V'Sham-ru v'nei Yis-ra-el et Ha Shabbat.
[together]
The people of Israel shall keep Shabbat.
We are a people in whom the past endures.
on whom the present is inconceivable without moments gone by.
The Exodus lasted a moment, a moment enduring forever.
Shabbat arrives. Eternity utters a day.
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The Amidah
(rise, together)
 
Adonai, s-fa-tai tif-tach, ufi ya-gid t'hi-la-te-cha.
 
God, open up my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise.

Ba-ruch a-tah  A-do-nai,   E-lo-hei-nu, Vei-lo-hei a-vo-tei-nu,  
E-lo-hei Av-ra-ham, E-lo-hei Yitz-chak, Vei-lo-hei Ya-a-kov,  
Ha-eil Ha-Ga-dol Ha-Gi-bor v'Ha-No-rah Eil Eil-yon, 
go-meil cha-sa-dim to-vim 
v'ko-nei ha-kol 
v'zo-cheir chas-dei a-vot  
u'mei-vi go-eil liv-nei v'nei-hem 
l'ma-an sh'mo b'a-ha-vah,
Me-lech o-zeir u'mo-shi-a u-ma-gein

Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai, ma-gein Av-ra-ham.

A-tah gi-bur l'o-lam, A-do-nai, m'chai-yei mei-tim,  a-ta rav  l'ho-shi-a,

m'chal-keil cha-yim b'che-sed ,
m'cha-yei mei-tim, b'ra-cha-mim ra-bim,
so-meich no-f'lim, v'ro-fei cho-lim
u-ma-tir a-su-rim ,
u-m'kai-yeim, e-mu-na-to, li-shei-nei a-far,
mi cha-mo-cha ba-al g'vu-rot ,
u-mi do-me lach,
me-lech mei-mit u-m'chai-ye u-matz-mi-ach y'shu-a,


v'ne-e-man a-tah, l'ha-cha-yot mei-tim ,

Ba-ruch a-tah, A-do-nai, m'cha-yei ha-mei-tim.

Blessed are you God, Who gives life to all.

We pray as if everything depended on God. As Jews we also act as if everything depended on us.

[silent, personal meditation]

[together again]

Grant us abundant peace, Your most precious gift.

Sha-lom rav al Yis-ra-eil a-m'cha, ta-sim l'o-lam [repeat] 
Ki a-tah hu me-lech, a-don l'chawl ha-sha-lom [repeat]

Sha-lom rav al Yis-ra-eil a-m'cha, ta-sim l'o-lam [repeat]


V'tov b'ei-ne-cha l'va-reich, et a-m'cha Yis-ra-eil,
b'chawl-eit u-v'chawl sha-ah,   bish-lo-me-cha.

Sha-lom rav al Yis-ra-eil a-m'cha, ta-sim l'o-lam [repeat]

ta-sim l'o-lam [2].

Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai, ha-m'va-reich et a-mo Yis-ra-eil ba-sha-lom.

O-seh sha-lom bim-ro-mav,
hu ya-a-seh sha-lom a-lei-nu, v'al kawl Yis-ra-eil,  
v'im'ru:  v'im'ru A-mein.
 

ya-a-seh sha-lom. ya-a-seh sha-lom, sha-lom a-lei-nu v'al kawl Yis-ra-eil, [repeat 4]

v'im'ru A-mein.

______

Let He Who makes Peace in the Heavens, make peace for us, upon all Israel and all the world, and let us say, Amen.

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{together..from Isaiah 2:4}

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they again know war.

Lo yisa goi el goi che-rev, v'lo yil-m'du od mil-cha-ma. [6]

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Aleinu:

Let us now praise the Sovereign of the Universe, and proclaim the greatness of the Creator. We bow in awe and thanksgiving before the Holy One, blessed be He.

(together)

A-lei-nu l'sha-bei-ach la-a-don ha-kol ,
la-teit g'du-la l'yo-tseir b'rei-shit ,
he-lo a-sa-nu k'go-yei ha-a-ra-tzot ,
v'lo sa-ma-nu k'mish-p'chot ha-a-da-ma ,

he-lo sam hel-kei-nu ka-hem ,

v'go-ra-lei-nu k'chawl a-mo-nam.  

Va-a-nach-nu ,ko-r'im ,         
u-mish-ta-cha-vim u-mo-dim 
 .

lif-nei me-lech, mal-chei ha-m'la-chim  
ha-ka-dosh ba-ruch hu.

(She-hu no-teh sha-ma-yim v'yo-seid a-rets,
u-mo-shav y'ka-ro ba-sha-ma-yim mi-ma-al,
ush-chi-nat u-zo, [2], b'gawv-hei m'ro-mim.

Hu E-lo-hei-nu, ein od.
E-met mal-kei-nu, e-fes zu-la-to, Ka-ka-tuv b'to-ra-to:
v'ya-da'ta ha-yom, va-ha-shei-vo-ta el l'va-ve-cha,
Ki A-do-nai hu ha-e-lo-him, ba-sha-ma-yim mi-ma-al,
v'al ha-a-rets [2] mi-ta-chat, ein od.
)

Ve-ne-e-mar:
v'ha-ya A-do-nai
l'me-lech al kawl ha-a-retz;
ba-yom ha-hu [2]
yi-h'ye A-do-nai e-chad,
u-sh'mo  [3] e-chad.
u-sh'mo   e-chad.

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MOURNER'S KADDISH

Let our thoughts turn to those who have departed from this earth, their souls bound up with the souls of our ancestors. They are our own loved ones, those who our friends and neighbors have lost, the martyrs of our people whose graves are not marked, and those of every race and nation whose lives have been a blessing to humanity. As we now say the kaddish, we meditate on the meaning of love and loss, of life and death.

[rise, together]

Yit-ga-dal v'yit-ka-dash sh'mei ra-ba, (A-mein.)
b'al-ma di-v'ra chi-ru-tei, v'yam-lich mal-chu-tei
b'chai-yei-chon uv'yo-mei-chon
uv'chai-yei d'chawl beit Yis-ra-eil,
ba-a-ga-la u-viz-man ka-riv,
v'im'ru: A-mein.
(A-mein.)

Y'hei sh'mei ra-ba m'va-rach
l'a-lam ul'al-mei al-ma-ya. 

Yit-ba-rach v'yish-ta-bach,
v'yit-pa-ar v'yit-ro-mam v'yit-na-sei,
v'yit-ha-dar v'yit-a-leh v'yit-ha-lal, sh'mei d'ku-d'sha, b'rich hu, 

          

l'ei-la min kawl bir-cha-ta v'shi-ra-ta,
tush-b'cha-ta v'ne-che-ma-ta, da-a-mi-ran b'al-ma,
v'im'ru: A-mein.
 
 

Y'hei sh'la-ma ra-ba min sh'ma-ya,
v'cha-yim
 
a-lei-nu v'al kawl Yis-ra-eil,
v'im'ru: A-mein. 
 

O-seh sha-lom bim-ro-mav,
hu ya-a-seh sha-lom a-lei-nu v'al kawl Yis-ra-eil,
v'im'ru: A-mein.  
 
 

KIDDUSH FOR THE WINE
[TOGETHER]
Ba-rukh a-tah A-don-ai, El-o-hei-nu, me-lekh ha-olam
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe

 borei p'ri ha-ga-fen (Amein)
Who creates the fruit of the vine (Amen)

 

 
Ba-rukh a-tah A-don-ai, El-o-hei-nu, me-lekh ha-olam
Blessed are You, Lord, our God, King of the Universe
 asher kid'shanu b'mitz'vo-tav v'rat-zah v-anu
who sanctifies us with his commandments, and has been pleased with us
 v'sha-bat kad'sho b'a-ha-vah uv'rat-zon hin'chil-a-nu,,, zi-kar-on l'ma'a-seih v'rei'shit
You have lovingly and willingly given us Your holy Shabbat as an inheritance, in memory of creation

ki hu yom t'chi-lah l'mik'ra'ei ko-desh, zei-kher litz-i'at Mitz'ra-yim.
.because it is the first day of our holy assemblies, in memory of the exodus from Egypt

ki vanu va-char'ta, v'o-ta-nu kid-ash-'ta, mik-ol ha'am-im
because You have chosen us and made us holy from all peoples

v'shabat kad'sh'kha, b'a-ha-vah uv'ratzon,.... hin'chal'tanu....
and have willingly and lovingly given us Your holy Shabbat for an inheritance

Ba-rukh a-tah A-don-ai m'ka-deish ha-sha-bat (Amein).
Blessed are You, who sanctifies Shabbat (Amen)

HA MOTZI [TOGETHER]
Ba-rukh atah A-don-ai, El-o-hei-nu, me-lekh ha-olam
Blessed are You, Lord, our God, King of the Universe
 
ha-motzi le-chem min ha'aretz. (Amein).
who brings forth bread from the earth. (Amen)
TURN TO A NEIGHBOR AND WISH THEM:
SHABBAT SHALOM
 
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