Image from jp.depositphotos.com [Singing the Sabbath liturgy is a Sinaite’s ‘prayerful tribute in music’ to the God we love and worship.  We take our cue from   Christian hymnologists who were inspired not only to pay tribute to the Christian God but to teach the flock through the lyrics of simple tunes. That is why they wrote […]

The CREATOR Kindles His Sabbath Lights! Blessed are You, YHWH, Eternal God,  Who was and is and will be as You choose to be to Jews, to Gentiles, and to us, Sinaites. Blessed are You, All-Existent-One  Who has no beginning and no end, Whose Wisdom designed earthly time and heavenly space which you did not leave empty, but filled with […]

“Blessed is the Eternal Power Who inspires our people to kindle the lights of Shabbat.     Blessed is the Source of Life and Light.”   Lord YHWH, we join observant Israel in welcoming Your Queen of Days with the traditional kindling of the Sabbath lights which begins the celebration of Your weekly Sabbath, truly […]

  KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS    [Tune:  “Remember the Sabbath” from the Seventh Day Adventist, tune heard on TV/Revised Lyrics and added Stanzas]   1.  Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy, honor the day: Yahuwah commands us to love Him wholly, and we obey; That we may know Him and learn His sacred ways, Keeping the Sabbath […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS We meet once again at sundown,  erev Shabbat, to welcome the Queen of all days, to seek our Lord YHWH’s blessings upon our celebration as we enjoy one another’s company, and acknowledge His Presence;  for YHWH is truly the invisible Guest of Honor  Who graces the special gathering      of all keepers of His Holy Sabbath. […]

[Reminder to new web-visitors; Sinaites are former Christ-believers and as such, our hymnody is deeply rooted in Christian music.   We have adopted the music but changed the lyrics which now express our Sinaite creed; occasionally we choose to retain the hymn in its original because it reflects our sentiments.   It takes time to get […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS “When I gaze into the night skies I see the work of Your fingers—- the moon and stars suspended in space. Oh Lord YHWH, what is man that You are mindful of him?”           With the constant sighting of the phases of the moon, indicating time’s progress […]

  [“Which candle are you?” That was the question in our 2015 Sabbath liturgy.     In hindsight, it was prophetic because since then, one ‘light of life’ in our very small core community was extinguished on January 23 this year, namely VAN@S6K, the most senior among us. But while his lonnngggg life-wick did finally burn out […]

[A musical liturgy every other Sabbath of the year has become traditional for Sinaites.  As we frequently remind our visitors,  while we have shed the doctrines of Christianity, we have not shed its hymnody — we love the music but no longer agree with the lyrics.  Hymnodists of old taught the flock what they might have […]

[A 5th Sabbath in a month is always a bonus and so it is with July 2016.  For this liturgy, we borrow prayers from GATES OF REPENTANCE,  The New Union Prayerbook for the Days of Awe.  This is a book I found in the Burlingame Public Library (Burlingame, CA, USA) discarded in  the “used” or “second hand” […]