Shabbat Prayers - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

there's something called cover light shabbat which is it's a whole series of prayers that we say they're all in order to get us ready fish about it's very it's a very beautiful idea it's a very simple idea you can't you can't just walk into Shabak without some kind of preparation so your 308 so we recite here the beginning of kabbalat shabbat is is six chapters from tehillim from Psalms that we say and they correspond to the six days of the week which means that you know the whole idea over here is to to take the spiritual dimensions of the weekend to internalize them and turn sure but into something that's got the it's got the foundations of the week inside of it right gonna in a more spiritual dimension so we recite six of these one after the other and then after that we sing lakad ID look like don't you of course I don't know if you're familiar with it but it's it's very it's very beautiful it's a kind of thing everybody looks forward to it's on page 316 it's actually it's quite unique because it was only authored 500 years ago which may sound like a long time to you but in Jewish Jewish prayer 500 years is pretty recent and yet it's it's accepted by everybody all the different communities all over the place they use the hadadi inside of there friday night services so and so very it's very it's very beautiful it's got ten different verses in it again the verse ten number ten is very significant it it describes something which is complete something which is whole the totality of something and what's interesting about local daily is if you read it through after you've been through the first little bit at the beginning the rest of it doesn't talk about shabbat at all but it talks about the redemption and it talks about you shall i'm with Jerusalem and the idea of the coming of the Messiah which means that there's that there's a very close connection between Shabbat and this very very important concept of the of the Messianic era the idea of keeping shabbat shabbat shabbat first of all is considered to be a mole on my bites a little bit a little bit you know like a little bit of the of the world to come like which means that it's got its got a dimension to it which is very spiritual and something that we need to tap into I always talk I've taught us all one hundreds of times but it's something which i think is there I think it's very important I only do my wife's grandfather how was it he was that he wasn't a very learning man but he was very righteous man very pious man and whenever used to phone him up and ask him how shabbos was he would say Shalvis is always good it took me a while to realize what he was saying you know your shabbos may have been lousy right but it's not it's not Chavez's full that it was lousy its artful right the way we're not we're not dealing with shovels all right why we're not approaching it the right way that's what turns shovers into something which is not positive but shovers is always good and I was hit that was his approach and that's really the concept of kabbalat shabbat of bringing in Shabbat there's pre pre maariv filler this premyer of prayer is there to get us to understand and to appreciate that Shabbat is something that we need to be working hard for in order to be able to have it means something you know of significance after oh you know what the last verse of kabbalat shabbat asked for some local dhoni here at the bottom of page 318 so over there there's a custom everybody stands up they face the back and when they sing boy holla boy color which means the bride should come the shovel I the shadows Queen should come so you bow to each side and then turn around and face the front again what you'll find in different tools they have different customs but that's pretty much that's pretty much the basic the basic custom is that everyone stands up together faces the back vowels to the left and to the right then comes around and sitting you know four phases of front again after that there are another two chapters at elem on page 320 those you know again the very the whole structure is something very significant something very beautiful actually you've got these six these six chapters of Psalms at the beginning which of the six days of the week then you've got lakad OD which is bringing bringing us into Shabbat and in the end of the condo do Ken is bought you know boy kalabaw jacala then the Chavez bride should enter our lives and then immediately afterwards we say chapter seven it means more sheer Lee Amish about the seventh chapter of to healing songs that we say is mismo sitio much about which is the song that the some that's been composed in honor of Shabbat which means it it's all fitting together very neatly right six days of the week the card ID Shabbat if you take a look through these most surely I'm a Shabbat you might be surprised to see that there's very little mention of Shabbat at all over there it's really talking about things which are again very easy so tarik the more the concepts of the world to come and the idea that the two are very closely intertwined with each other the there's a very famous vasilich commentary called this fat and that who says that the word Shabbat is very closely related to the word lush of which means to return when shisha bad is all about returning we're returning back to you know the more spiritual dimensions of our lives and we're leaving leaving the physical dimensions behind and we're just connecting together with God and then there's a another chapter which is recited at the bottom I share my laugh and then after that so again it depends depending on where you're praying so you may find here in Israel the prevalent custom is to recite what's called bubbly madhulika which is the a series of missions take them from shabbos and from the combined Chavez where it talks about what do you like with what you shouldn't lie with what's good for shabbos candles well it's not good for shabbos candles in over here the prevalent custom amongst the Ashkenazi communities is to recite this now before borrow some communities input size outside of Israel have the custom to say it at the end of the whole service the whole shabbos service I don't know it depends where you are depends what they do whatever they do it's going to be okay some some communities the what snow sucks what's called a satisfied which is the Hasidic communities and no such a determines rap which is as far dick communities so they don't say they don't recycle any mud leaking at all and they recite something called cadaver know which is a very very esoteric prayer it's a prayer that was it's a very very you know based based in the Cabal ads based in the in the woods of the ZOA and it talks about the connection between ourselves and Shabbat again whatever is going on you know normally just follow whatever the community is doing and and try to try to keep up with them I guess that's the best thing to do and after that so the end if it's a if you're dabbling in an Ashkenazi community so after them at Lincoln there'll be a caddish like the yeah the mortars will recite a long Kaddish on page 328 cool the rabbi's Kaddish and then afterwards is barkal now in some communities they'll be a break again it really depends whatever whatever the custom of each community is but in some communities that make a break and they'll uh they'll somebody will speak there's an analogy yeah rabbis Kaddish on peace 328 again it could be that before before bark or it could be somebody's going to get up and speak and could be that he won't I don't know it just depends on the custom of wherever you are right so something to be something to be aware of everyone starts sitting down and settling down in their seats I mean somebody's going to speak and it's probably wise to tell the person next to you that they should wake you up right when when they get to borrow for which is so you should be able to pray together everyone else of course probably the he falls asleep as well then it's a little bit of a problem but and then on page 330 is barraco now the format for maariv is pretty much it's pretty much the same as a format that you have throughout the week as well which means there's barraco the the kazan resides bajo a toshiba mubarak and everybody resides back boca shaman rattled on the head and then they start the bracket before the Sh'ma there's the tube rahat over here that are recited before we begin the Sh'ma then we get to the Sh'ma everybody recite sushma together the shmatte is the the focal prayer you know it just it appears everywhere you know it's in every day we said we said what you know once a chucker we say once again in my lifetime we said before we go to sleep he said before a year before a Brit the night before Brittany Lawrence recited it said in the video in the in the final confession that somebody makes it's also a bit there the whole the whole time the Sh'ma is there it's part of who we are it's really defines our relationship with a college bhavish my stylish and economic Shanna Claude the word Sh'ma doesn't really mean here even though that's how it's translated over here I guess right all right it's a declaration we have to internalize that we have to know that if we say that I chevys one then it means that only I Shem is one only that I show me the only entity that can be described as echoed as one at every everything else is comprised of different components even each and every one of us we're comprised of all different kinds of bits and pieces that make up the human beings that we are so there's at the skeleton and the flesh and you your neshama and everything comes together in order to make you and then with it with the Sh'ma the Sh'ma is recited there are three paragraphs over here and at the end of the Sh'ma everybody waits to for the not normally they're waiting for the rabbi vish of the shove the synagogue to finish up his recitation of the schneid normally spends long as saying it than other people and then what happens is like this that the person who's leading the prayers of kazan he says outline out loud ash m/l ok 10 and they're those three words at the end now there's a little bit of an important how locker over here if a person's not praying together with a with a minion so he's not he can't say these words a Chevrolet okay I'm event again so what did he do at the beginning the schwab you just flipped back to page 300 I'm 30 for a moment you'll see at the top above the word Schmeiser there are three words celt Malik Newman which means God faithful King if a person's praying by himself so he should begin the Sh'ma with those three words and then when he gets to the end of a chevy location ever met then he can just carry on reciting what comes afterwards if he's praying with a minion so then he should not say the words kel 9mm on those three words over there but rather he should say immediately shrine so a Chevrolet can wash in Akkad and the the hazzan will repeat the words ash Emma locate him and met at the end what's the significance of those three words because the number of words that appear inside of the Shema are 245 if we add in the three words of either kel nelec near man or a shamrock ever met we get 248 248 correspondent of 248 organs in the body and according to the rabbi's again sir somewhat esoteric concept but according to the rabbi's each word corresponds to one of our organs which means that it's it's a spy something of great significance it needs to be said it should be said slowly the word should be pronounced correctly and we should make sure that we make a gap between each word to make sure that we're not running words one into the other because in each one corresponds to one of our organs then we really need to you know be taking care to make a differentiation to recite them probably properly if a person has not finished his own recitation of the imido Valentine the cousin says ash Emma locate him in it that's okay should just once he gets in the end once he says there was a sham location ever met he should just carry on with the woods then will now cause that right and faithful is all of this that's the next paragraphs that are recited over here and again we got a we have a little broker down here at the bottom it says Bogota same golly soil and then hash covino is the blessing that's recited before we begin the Amidah now according to different communities once you get to the alkaline when you solve value shall I'm on page 336 once you get to that everyone says I made now i cant depending on what kind of community in depends on whether they're going to say the next little bit or not right as you see ya the shovel vinay soil so some people say it some communities say it and some communities don't and what will happen is like this that if they do said everyone will recite it together if they don't say it till after they say I made at the end of the blessing over here everyone will bring the chasm will begin Kaddish and well at the rule of thumb is normally whatever you do is going to be the wrong thing right so if you start screaming at the top of your voice for shove over there sort of the shovels you'll find out that they don't say it and you're going to feel really silly and if you if you sort of get yourself ready to start praying the Amanita then you'll see the everyone saying it then you'll feel silly again although that's slightly less embarrassing because people won't realize how do you how do you know you just just wait in a wait a moment and see what they do so if they all start you know say together shall rule so then you know that that's what they're going to send you can said together with them if they don't they'll start immediately with keri shull you'll know straightaway right one way or the other what's what's going on over there again I don't know what to tell you many communities do many communities don't I don't know what the rule of thumb is particularly with regards to identifying you know who doesn't who doesn't I don't look very here over the healing issue I don't know what they do whether they do said or if they don't say it but again wherever you go whatever they do so just follow whatever they're doing which if they say it so you should say it is they don't say it then don't say it and then the the Abbey damn begins at the army die again the format of every Amida is basically the same which means that the framework of the aveda begins with three broad at the beginning and there could be a cat a vote that's referring to the brothels of the forefathers and the first broker is directed towards Abraham the second brother is directed towards Isaac and the third one is directed towards Jacob and then in the middle of the amidah that's going to define what it is it was saying all right so during the week we make all kinds of requests from God for things that we need on Shabbat everything is going to be Shabbat related all right so here for example on page three hundred and forty here atake dash daddy i'm a swedish metal that you sanctify the seventh day which means that everything is going to be directed towards whatever's going on some for example Shabbat we talked about shabbat on rosh chodesh which is the first day of the month we talked about the first day of the month right on yom tov we talk about whatever the festival might be that's what we're talking about and that's all over here after you begin the first part of the amidah which again is universal every time you begin the aveda it's always going to have the same beginning on page 338 after that the middle part is going to define what it is that you're praying and then on page 342 you're coming back to the standard you know the standard framework of whatever is being recited so we begin with beer Qatar vote we begin with the blessings of the forefathers we have the piece in the middle which is going to define what it is that we're praying whether it's a week whether it's Shabbat and then at the end these are all of the bracket which revolve around giving thanks to God and asking God for he should bring peace to the world and that's that all of that is going to appear in all the difference and we dot that you're going to daven will regardless of whether it's during the week or regardless whether it's on Shabbat it's always going to be the same beginning in the same end and it's a piece in the middle which is going to make the difference what what makes Shabbat the the marriage service on Shabbat unique is that we have a little bit of a repetition of the Amidah now normally unsure are normally during the week when it comes to mind is so we don't repeat the arena right after the recitation of their meter so Kaddish is recited and that's it but over here if you see on page 346 so there's a like a whole little ceremony that takes place at the end of the a leader everybody waits and once everybody's ready then the cousin will begin the words value hula sure my loads for haunts long oh yes when I since MGM yes sorry I should have the word army dummies to stand that's where it came from this when I say it comes from the fact that during the week they're used there originally there were 18 prayers and now nowadays are a 19 of them but it kept its name as the Sheila nya the 18 okay at the end so at the end of the ebony on page 346 the Kazon will start to recite the words value who'll wash am I invited to Huntsville and everybody says it together and then after that he'll begin like this this very short repetition of the a leader which is something which we only Tony we don't have it during the rest during the rest of the week at all it's something which is particular to Shabbat and so there's a brush everybody answers I've been to the brother and then the congregation resides if you see this paragraph right at the bottom of 346 my gain avant vid viral the congregation recited in the cousin normally recites it afterwards after everybody's finished sometimes the phazon says it together with everybody else but the proper way to do it is let the congregation say it and then two and then for the thousands of sin himself and then on page 348 the thousand continues a little bit more recites a blessing and then Kaddish is recited and now just in general you should know there are several different kinds of Kaddish right there is a caddish that the husband recites which is normally comprised of either half Kaddish or whole Kaddish right half Kaddish is normally denoting that we've come to a point where we're moving with making transition from one part of dabbling into another so for example before borracho after borracho but there's a whole cabbage is that we've come to the end like this is like the end of Kaddish and the whole carriage is denoted by an extra verse which danny wrinkled it kebbel to lawton a vault on the whole beta-cell car thermometer and everyone delish mayavi woman and that's considered to be the whole Kaddish however there are two other cad issues as well which are recited during prayer services one of them is the Kaddish that we mentioned before which is Kaddish to rubbin on that's a rabbi's Kaddish even though it's not an obligation for the it doesn't it doesn't have to only be recited by mourners normally its recited by the mourners that's a caddish which is a little bit longer it's also a caddish which is recited after you've recited some words of Tyros so for example we learned before after lovely mad leakin so Kaddish there are bananas recited after for example ain't que lo que no on Chavez morning and during the week so callous troponin is recited and then there is a standard mourners Kaddish mourners Kaddish is normally only recited by those people who are mourning who are mourners somebody who's lost a parent or a sibling or a spouse right those are normally the ones that people recite Kaddish over and it is possible sometimes even if a grandparent passes away no one else is ever say Kaddish for the grandparent or a family member so somebody can say Kaddish for them as well but under normal circumstances the mourners are normally people who are saying Kaddish for the parents and that's recited at the end of Davin e after Elena which is found on a Leninist fan on page 350 and Kaddish is found on page 352 now over here in the arts cross it on page 348 down at the bottom you've got kiddush kaduche and Kadesh are two different things kiddush is what's recited on shabbat over a cup of wine now in hood sides outside of Israel it is pretty much the norm that after davening kiddush is recited inside of the synagogue and why is it being done it's being done form of people who may not be able to hear kiddush somewhere else so at least they come to the synagogue they'll hear kiddush lots of synagogues have a acute custom where the kids will line up and they get a little bit of the wine and they get a biscuit and it's you know it's good to be a kid on friday night in synagogue right but here in the israel as far as I'm aware now I'm sure that there are communities where they do recite kiddush but the most most of synagogues that I'm familiar with they don't they're working on the premise that everyone is going to go home and if one is going to go home and make their own kiddush and therefore they don't have to make kiddush ensure in the synagogue and again you know what's going to be I don't know depends where you are right so some places you go to and there will be a kiddush and some there won't be this is not to be confused with what happens on shabbos morning when at the end of dabbling in many sinigang from the end down and they have a kiddush where everybody comes and they sit down and I have something a little bit more substantial to eat and a cookie so that's really it's a same kind of an idea that to recite kiddush just in case where people aren't going to hear kiddush otherwise but they should be able to hear kiddush in shul and that way they fulfill their obligation that's okay their circulation so well really what happens is like this that most people will go home and then recite kiddush again when they have their meal the reason for that even though perhaps you fulfilled your obligation in sure but they're going to be other people there at the table who haven't had their obligation filled yet so you're going to do it for them some people are careful not to have their obligation filled by the synagogue recitation right and then in order to be able to make sure that they're obligated in when they go home as well but what would happen is all nearly nearly everybody who's going to go home for a meal or go to somebody's house for a meal on Friday night is going to have kiddush reciting over there at the home and it's again it's really it's just for people who maybe maybe they're not for whatever the reason you know in there again abroad outside of Israel very often people come to synagogue because they were reciting Kaddish maybe it's a yard sign name is the anniversary of the parents passing and but then they may not be religious and they may not be planning on having any kind of a Shabbat sued at all any kind of Shabbat meal and if that's the case so they're in the synagogue some people recite kiddush in order to fulfill that at least they should hear kiddush on that friday night that shouldn't you know at least they should feel an obligation through that okay not that's really that really sort of takes care of the of the friday night VL over here the freights are in the friday-night service is over here and I true that i'm a big fan of the artscroll sitter as a rule it's very clear right so you know normally most synagogues they follow they follow the order of the artscroll sitter anyway and the artscroll sydow explains to you you know what's being done what's being said and it's got you know some pretty good footnotes as well and i think i think it's a very it's a very easy very user-friendly sinner to him or aware of what's going on he ran back nicely they used to be they used to be years and years ago these the real a couple of guys who sang songs called the mag a murderer and they'd rather hope they wrote something very clever the songs that they wrote one of them's one of the songs I wrote was called the the synagogue blues aspect it's like it says fellows it got it he's got into Sheol and he can't he cannot work out where he is they can't work out in the city where he's supposed to be and he can't he can't the person next to his fallen asleep so he can't ask him where it is supposed to be and the person on the other side of him is for sure not in the right place alright so and it's like a whole song that they sing together it's very clever the woods very clever about you know just feeling a little bit overwhelmed right when you got the synagogue and everyone seems to know what's going on and you don't and that's why it's good right you know most synagogues I hope are pretty as well as well as you doing hope the synagogue's user-friendly as well and when people see that you may be not so familiar so they'll come and help you out I show you you know what's what what's being said but but like I said you know the city of the sitter is oh it's a pretty good sitter areas you