[A ‘musical Sabbath’ — as we have often explained, our hymn background comes from our former Christian worship tradition; we have committed to memory music and lyrics. However, our beliefs are no longer in sync with the lyrics so we have taken the liberty of revising them, but still adapting their music. For those familiar with the original Christian lyrics, the rewrites might sound awkward, even forced, but it’s always a matter of getting used to something different, if not a variation of the familiar. For the hymns that were compatible with Torah, we left the lyrics as originally written. If you don’t know the music, just recite the lyrics.–Admin1.]
KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS
Be Thou my Vision
[Original Lyrics]
1. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art; Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy Presence my Light. 2. Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me Lord; Thou my great Father and I Thy true child; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. 3. Be Thou my battle shield, sword for the fight; Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight; Thou my soul’s shelter, Thou my high tower, Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power. 4. Riches I need not, nor man’s empty praise; Thou mine inheritance, now and always; Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art. 5. High King of Heaven, my victory won, May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
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Give to our God Immortal Praise
[Christian hymn, revised stanzas 3-8]
BLESSINGS
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Bless this bread, bless this wine,
Bless our fellowship today
it’s Your Time,
Bless the men, bless the wives,
Bless our children,
they’re Your gifts to our lives,
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1. God has spoken by His Prophets,
spoken His unchanging Word, Each from age to age proclaiming God is One, He’s Only One! He’s the Alpha, He’s the Omega, There is no other God but He, He is present, past and future, He alone is First and Last. 2. First there’s Moses, then there’s Samuel, and the major prophets three, Jeremiah and Isaiah, Ezekiel who all could ‘see’! Minor prophets– no less important— Amos, Hosea, Nahum and . . . Micah, Jonah, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zacari-ah! 3. Malachi and Obadiah, Joel, Habakkuk, there’s more— Others who were not included in TNK’s great hall of fame. What’s important is God’s message, Who they were, God knows their names, Praise Yahuwah for His prophets, Those whose words we hear today.
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HAVDALAH
