KABBALAT SHABBAT SERVICE TO CELEBRATE LOVE, FORGIVENESS AND FRIENDSHIP, SEPT 7, 2007
Our special Kabbalat Service began with a Niggun,
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The Special Liturgy:
Many Jews believe that one cannot begin to pray, a process in which the acceptance of God upon oneself is the central experience (through the recitation of the Sh'mah), unless one has first accepted the obligation to recognize the presence of God in each person.
I hereby accept the obligation
of fulfilling my Creator's mitzvah
in the Torah:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
And you shall have love in your heart
For yourself and your friends
To create a world of hope and peace
We were made in the light of HaShem.
SONG: AMAR RABI AKIVA
Amar Rabi Akiva. Amar Rabi Akiva.
V'ahavtah l'ray'acha.
L'ray'acha kamocha.(2x)
Zeh k'lal gadol. Gadol batorah Amar Rabi Akiva (2x).
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RESPONSIVE READINGS:
May the door of the sanctuary of our hearts be wide
enough to receive all who hunger for love
all who are lonely for friendship.
May it welcome all who have cares to unburden,
thanks to express, hopes to nurture.
May the door of our sanctuary be narrow enough to shut out pettiness and pride, envy and enmity.
May its threshold be no stumbling block to young or straying feet.
May it be too high to admit complacency, selfishness, and harshness.
May this sanctuary be, for all who enter, the doorway to a richer and more meaningful life.
WE ARE LOVED
We are loved by an unending love.
We are embraced by arms that find us even when we are hidden from ourselves. We are touched by fingers that soothe us even when we are too proud for soothing. We are counseled by voices that guide us even when we are too embittered to hear.
We are loved by an unending love.
We are supported by hands that uplift us even in the midst of a fall. We are urged on by eyes that meet us even when we are too weak for meeting.
We are loved by an unending love.
Embraced, touched, soothed, and counseled, ours are the arms, the fingers, the voices; ours are the hands, the eyes, the smiles;
We are loved by an unending love
SONG: B'YADO
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Transliteration: B'yado afkid ruchi, b'eit ishan v'airah, V'imruchi g'viyati, Hashem lee v'loh ira.
Translation: Into Your hands I entrust my spirit, when I sleep and when I wake, and with my spirit my body also; the Eternal is with me, I will not fear.
SONG: COME LET US TURN
Come let us turn, return and be turned
Come let us turn, return and be turned
Come let us turn, return and be turned
to the One
Hashiveynu
Elecha v'nashuva
Hashiveynu
SONG: MAY THE WATERS OF HEALING
Refrain: Ah-na El na, please Holy One.
Re-fah na la, let your healing be done.
Ah-na El na, heal our soul
Re-fah na la, may we be whole.
May the pure light of healing flow through our soul.
May the pure light of healing flow through our mind
May the pure light of healing flow through our heart
May the pure light of healing flow through our form
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