Blessings
| Candle Blessings (click to listen) | mp3 format | wav format |
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| Baruch Ata Adonai (Yah), Eloheynu Melech (Ruach) Ha'olam, asher kid’shanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner, l'hadlik ner shel Shabbat. | |
| (Holy One of Blessing, Your Presence fills creation, You have made us holy with the precept to kindle the light of Shabbat.) | |
| Challah Blessings (click to listen) | mp3 format | wav format |
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| Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha'olam, Hamotzee lechem meen ha-aretz. |
| (Blessed are You, Adonai, our God, Ruler of the universe who brings bread out of the earth.) |
| Friday Evening Kiddush (Wine Blessings) (click to listen) |
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Baruch
Atah Adonai Elohaynu Melech Ha'olam boray pri hagafen.
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| (Blessed are You, Boundless God, the Source of all Life, who creates the fruit of the vine.) | |
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| Baruch Atah Adonai Elohaynu Melech Ha'olam | |
| Blessed are You, Yah, our God, Source of All Life, | |
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| Asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav v'ratazah vanu, | |
| You have made us holy with your precepts, and taken pleasure in us. | |
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| v'shabat kodsho b'ahava u'v'ratzon hinchilanu, | |
| You have lovingly and willingly given us Your holy shabbat as an inheritance, | |
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| zikaron l'ma'aseh v'resisheet, | |
| in memory of creation. | |
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| Ki hu yom t'chila l'mikra'ei kodesh zeicher litzi-at Mitzrayim, | |
| The shabbat is the first among our holy days, and a remembrance of our exodus from Egypt | |
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| ki vanu vacharta, v'otanu kidashta mi kol (im kol) ha'amim | |
| For you have called to us and make us holy for your service (along with all peoples) | |
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| v'shabbat kodshecha b'ahava uv'ratzon hinchaltanu. | |
| and given us to keep, in love and favor, your holy Shabbat | |
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| Baruch Atah Adonai m'kadesh hashabat. | |
| Blessed are you, Source of Wonder, who sets apart Shabbat. | |
Links to More Blessings Online
To hear the Birkat Hamazon (after meal blessing) along with other Shabbat prayers and songs, try Siddur Audio, at www.sidduraudio.com
To hear an alternative Birkat Hamazon renewal/reconstructionist style, along with other Shabbat prayers and songs, go to the Malibu Synagogue "Shabbat in your home" page, http://www.mjcs.org/shabbat_home.asp