KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS O CREATOR of LIGHT, in the meaningful family tradition of Your chosen people, the matriarch of the family kindles the Sabbath lights and recites the blessing:   Blessed art Thou, O LORD [YHWH], our God,  King of the Universe, Who hast sanctified us by Thy commandments  and hast commanded us to “kindle  the […]

[These prayers are borrowed from the book titled:  Entering Jewish Prayer: Guide to Personal Devotion and the Worship Service,  by Reuven Hammer.  When we feature prayer traditions of other faiths, particularly the liturgical expressions of observant Israel, our purpose is simply to learn from them and experience their way of worshipping the same God we all […]

 KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS     O YHWH, Creator God,  as our six-day work-week winds down to erev Shabbat, we join Sabbath-keepers all over the world  who honor You not only as Creator but significantly as Lord of the Sabbath,  by ceasing from our daily striving, by celebrating the joy of knowing You, and the pleasure of being with one another […]

[We are grateful to God-inspired and gifted composers of Christian hymns for their music that we proudly use for our “musical liturgy”;  the lyrics have been revised to reflect the Sinaite’s credo.—Admin1.]     KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS   Blessed are You, YHWH our GOD, KING of the universe, Who commanded us to set apart a […]

[During this Easter celebration of the life-death-resurrection of the 2nd Person of the Christian Trinitarian God who dominates the New Testament scriptures, it is only fitting to go back to basics and feature the God of Israel Who dominates the “Old” Testament, i.e., the Hebrew Scriptures, the TNK.     At the culmination of creation […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS [Original Tune: “Praise the Name of Jesus”/Revised Lyrics]  Light one Sabbath candle as His blazing sun sets, darkness fills all the spaces,  not in the minds where His True Light dwells, Let His Tree of Life be your Light.   Light two Sabbath candles,  Brighten up the darkness, One is good, two is much […]

 KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS   Blessed are You, YHWH,  Creator God, whose very first words recorded in Scripture were: “let there be light”, Whose LIGHT illuminated empty space before there ever was a created sun; Who designed heavenly luminaries for visual delight as well as  for guidance.   In Your theophanies as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures,  […]

[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 […]

[Here’s another Sabbath liturgy in song.  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.     We worship the Originator of Diversity, just look at His Creation!  Remember, our revised […]

[As former Catholics/Evangelicals/Messianics, we Sinaites have committed many Christian hymns to memory.  We love the music, yet can no longer sing the lyrics . . . so what to do? The next best thing!  Since imitation is the best compliment (that is our excuse anyway), we’ve borrowed the music, rewritten the lyrics according to our […]