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Kindle the Sabbath Lights
LORD YHWH,
Your glorious sun has set,
its light and heat has faded from our vision and our horizon.
And yet, just like You Yourself,
O YHWH, Light of our lives, Who is ever present in our lives,
we know your sun continues to light other parts of our world,
even if it is not within our vision during the dark nights in our side of our planet earth.
Once again, as the biblical day begins,
and continues from sundown to sundown,
we welcome Your Queen of Days,
Your Holy Sabbath,
our Sanctuary in time,
a day set apart from our work week,
a gift of rest from our daily toiling,
for rest is the Divine design for all living creatures,
which we observe among the smallest to the largest,
from the weakest to the strongest,
all are naturally designed to stop, to cease,
and take a rest . . . a natural part of existing,,
an important part of living,
not merely a human natural necessity,
but basic as well to all living, breathing beings,
as designed according to the Wisdom of the Creator.
So we kindle these Sabbath lights,
to signify the beginning of YHWH’s Sabbath,
set apart from other days of the week,
for rest . . . amen.
I Sing the Mighty Power of God [Original Lyrics]
1. I sing the mighty power of God that made the mountains rise;
That spread the flowing seas abroad and built the lofty skies.
I sing the wisdom that ordained the sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at God’s command and all the stars obey.
2. I sing the goodness of the LORD that filled the earth with food;
God formed the creatures with a Word and then produced them ‘good’.
LORD, how Thy wonders are displayed where’er I turn my eyes;
If I survey the ground I tread or gaze upon the skies!
3. There’s not a plant or flow’r below but makes Thy glories known;
The clouds arise and tempests blow by order from Thy throne;
While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care,
And everywhere that we can be, Thou God art present there.
“How can men hear . . .”
Original Tune: I Must Tell Jesus/Revised Lyrics
How can ‘they’ hear of God’s revelation
if we’re afraid of ‘them’ more than God?
How can ‘they’ hear if we just keep silent,
Keep to ourselves the Truth that we know.
How hard it is to change others’ thinking,
When ‘they’ are deaf or choose to be blind?
It’s in the Torah, the five books of Moses,
God has revealed His will to mankind.
REFRAIN: How can I tell ‘them’, how can I tell ‘them’,
When they refuse to listen to me?
I can’t keep silent, I must forewarn ‘them’,
God’s Will is clear, as clear as can be.
Who really opens our hearts and minds,
Is the choice ours or is the choice God’s?
If it were God’s choice, then we are nothing
more than His puppets, hung on a string!
God did not give us free will and freedom,
Just so He could take it back from us,
Freedom to choose the path that we walk on,
Free will to go His Way or our way.
REFRAIN: How can we tell ‘them’, how can we tell ‘them’,
How can we tell— who listens to us?
We can’t keep silent, we must tell others,
God’s will is clear, as clear as can be!
Torah Reading and Discussion:
Deuteronomy 29:1-28
Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them: “You have seen everything that HASHEM did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land–the great trials that your eyes beheld, those great signs and wonders. But HASHEM did not give you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear until this day. I led you for forty years in the Wilderness, our garment did not wear out from on you, and your shoe did not wear out from on your foot. Bread you did not eat and wine or intoxicant you did not drink, so that you would know that I am HASHEM, your God. Then you arrived at this place and Sihon, King of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, went out toward us to battle, and we smote them. We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenite, the Gadite, and to half the tribe of the Manassite. You shall observe the words of this covenant, so that you will succeed in all that you do.”
You are standing today, all of you, before HASHEM, your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers–all the men of Israel; your small children, your women, and your proselyte who is in the midst of your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water, ” for you to pass into the covenant of HASHEM, our God, seals with you today, in order to establish you today as a people to Him and that He be a God to you, as He spoke to you and as He swore to your forefathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Not with you alone do I seal this covenant and this imprecation, but with whoever is here, standing with us today before HASHEM, our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.
For you know how we dwelled in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations through whom you passed. And you saw their abominations and their detestable idols–of wood and stone, of silver and gold that were with them. Perhaps there is among you a man and woman, or a family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from being with HASHEM, our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; perhaps there is among you a root flourishing with gall and wormwood. And it will be that when he hears the words of this imprecation, he will bless himself in his heart, saying, “Peace will be with me, though I walk as my heart sees fit”–thereby adding the watered upon the thirsty.
HASHEM will not be willing to forgive him, for then HASHEM’s anger and jealousy will smoke against that man, and the entire imprecation written in this Book will come down upon him, and HASHEM will erase his name from under heaven. HASHEM will set him aside for evil from among all the tribes of Israel, like all the imprecations of the covenant that is written in this Book of the Torah.
The later generation will say — your children who will arise after you and the foreigner who will come from a distant land–when they will see the plagues of that Land and its illnesses with which HASHEM has afflicted it: “Sulphur and salt, a conflagration of the entire Land, it cannot be sown and it cannot sprout, and no grass shall rise up on it; like the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zebolim, which HASHEM overturned in His anger and wrath. And all the nations will say, “For what reason did HASHEM do so to this Land, why this wrathfulness of great anger?”
And they will say, “Because they forsook the covenant of HASHEM, the God of their forefathers, that He sealed with them when He took them out of the land of Egypt; and they went and served the gods of others and prostrated themselves to them–gods that they knew not and He did not apportion to them. So God’s anger flared against the Land, to bring upon it the entire curse that is written in this Book; and HASHEM removed them from upon their soil, with anger, with wrath, and with great fury, and He cast them to another land, as this very day!”
The hidden [sins] are for HASHEM, our God, but the revealed [sins] are for us and our children forever, to carry out all the words of this Torah.
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Original Tune: Bless this Home
[Revised Lyrics]
Bless this time, O LORD we pray,
Bless us all from day to day.
Bless all parents gathered here,
Bless our children, far and near,
Bless our efforts, that we may
love Thee more than we can say.
Bless our home on earth we pray,
Keep it safe from day to day.
May the love of family,
linger here for all to see,
May that love spread out to be
in our hearts where’er are we.
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HAVDALAH
Lead On, O King Eternal
[Original Lyrics]
Lead on O King Eternal,
The day of march has come;
Henceforth in fields of conquest
Your will shall be our home.
Through days of preparation,
Your grace has made us strong,
And now O King Eternal,
We lift our battle song.
Lead on, O King Eternal,
till sin’s fierce war shall cease,
And holiness shall whisper
the sweet Amen of peace;
For not with swords loud clashing
nor roll of stirring drums,
With deeds of love and mercy,
the heavenly kingdom coms.
Lead on O King Eternal,
We follow not with fears;
For gladness breaks like morning
where’er Your face appears;
Your Name is lifted o’er us,
We journey in its light;
The crown awaits the conquest:
Lead on, O God of might!
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A blessed Sabbath to Sinaites wherever you are,
and to all Christian and Messianic Sabbath-keepers,
In behalf of the Sinai 6000 Core Community,
NSB@S6K
