[If you haven’t yet entered “The Sabbath World”, this is as good a start as any. It has been called “a sanctuary in time” by Abraham Joshua Heschel and rightly so.  It is a dimension in time that the Lord of the Sabbath, YHWH, the Creator Himself set apart to rest from His creative work […]

[Singing the Sabbath prayers seems to appeal to our website visitors, as evidenced by the statistics on our most popular posts.  Indeed how much more delightful it is to set a Sabbath liturgy to music. So here’s another musical Sabbath to enjoy using traditional Christian hymn music but with revised lyrics in keeping with our […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace!           In the awe-inspiring words of Isaiah, a prophet who thought he had unclean lips, Only to YOU, Lord YHWH, God of Israel, Revelator on Sinai, Lord of the Nations, Only to YOU can Isaiah’s titles be ascribed, […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS   Be Thou My Vision – Borrowed Music/Revised Lyrics  Be Thou My Vision YAHUWAH my LORD, Be  Thou the Guide for my life, through Thy Word, Thou and Thou alone fill my mind, fill my heart, I vow that from Thee my God, I shall never depart!   Be Thou my […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS  As we kindle these two Sabbath lights, embracing this visual symbolic Jewish tradition, we relate one to Your servant Israel, Your light to the nations, to us gentiles. We relate the other to Your Revelation on Sinai, which the recipients and custodians have enshrined in the Torah, a way of living Your […]

              Kindle the Sabbath Lights     Blessed are You, YHWH, our God, King of the Universe! God of Israel, God of Sinaites, God of all world religions. Whether or not they acknowledge You as God, You, YHWH, are God! Creator,  Revelator on Sinai, God of Your Chosen Nation, Israel! […]

KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS   As sundown is once again upon our earth,  signaling the beginning of Your 7th Day, our anticipated Day of Rest, our Shabbat —- As  earthly time continues to march on, moving from season to season, according to Your natural design in forecast-able weather patterns and predictable climate changes– We reflect […]

Kindle the Sabbath Lights   Oh YHWH, God of Israel, We bless You for blessing the nations with knowledge of You and Your Torah, the true Revelation that Israel was privileged to be given as part of its Covenant with You on Sinai.       We bless Israel for sharing with the nations, the […]

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 4 […]

“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 […]