Shalom. I am Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg. This video will teach you how to do the Shabbat Kiddush, the sanctification prayers and Havdalah. To Christians who are watching this, it very important to understand that when we hold up the Kiddush cup and fill it with wine and it has nothing to do with the body of Jesus, the wine is not holy to us in fact, you can toss it out, it is not sanctified in any way. I say that because on my teacher say, he did a program with a group of nuns and they were very concerned about the wine after he finished the sanctification prayer.
We simply use wine or grape juice for this prayer, it goes back to ancient times—the idea that wine and grape juice was used as adding sanctification.
Okay so the Kiddush for Friday evening, it begins with the passage from the Torah, the beginning of Genesis where talks about the Sabbath. Important thing would be to find a text which has the Shabbat Kiddush in it and once you have that text, either, Hebrew or transliteration, then you can learn this, but I will sing it for you.
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Now, you do not start drinking here, there is another paragraph.
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And then, you can drink. Now, you do not say Amen anytime, you are after your own blessing, just if you hear someone else say. Now for Shabbat morning—the prayer has, first of all, the paragraph deshamro, few different ways to sing it, so find the Kiddush Shabbat morning. One basic tune is…
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Then it is a customary to chant the fourth commandment of the Ten Commandments dealing with Shabbat.
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And then you drink.
Obviously the key thing is the blessing, at least do the blessing until you learn the rest. So that is the Kiddush, but I want to show you Havdalah which is done Saturday night, when it gets to be dark and the Sabbath is over. For that you need three things—you need the Kiddush cup. You need something to hold the spices, and you need a braided candle and sometimes a candleholder. So, you light the braided candle and you have something sweet smelling in the spice packs like sediment or cloves, you put grape juice or wine in Kiddush cup.
Now, find yourself Havdalah ceremony, the text and here is one way to sing it. You always begin with the last verse of Shalom Malekhem which is saying, ‘goodbye to Shabbat.’
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Then it is customary to sing about the lives of the prophet, believes that he will announce for coming of the Messiah which will take place on the Saturday night.
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And then the text, hold up the Kiddush cup.
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And you hold up the Kiddush cup.
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And then the spices
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And then, so you do not waste the blessing, you smell, and then you pass around the spice pack to all the people to smell, and then, the first really creative work you doing is you kindle the candle, so say the blessing.
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And then again, so you are not wasting a blessing, you look at your finger nails, from the candlelight, usually as the custom. Then you take the Kiddush cup again.
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And then you drink a little from the wine, and then you put out the candle. The Havdalah ceremony separates the Sabbath which is not concluded from the rest of the week.
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