Maariv for the Evening of Sabbath

Remember Your compassion, CAUSE, and Your mercy, for eternal are they.

Sovereign, answer us on the day we call.

Gentlemen — bless the CAUSE who is bless-worthy!

Bless the CAUSE! Bless-worthy be God’s name and moniker always forever and ever!

Blessed are You, CAUSE our God, Sovereign of eternity, God who in a word makes the evenings evening, in wisdom opens gates, and in understanding changes times and exchanges the times and orders the stars in their watches in the heaven as desired. Creator of day and night, Roller of light from by darkness and darkness from by light. The crosser of day and bringer of night, and separator between day and night, CAUSE of Multitudes is God’s Name, Holy One of Israel, living and enduring always.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who makes the evenings evening.

Eternal love You have loved Your people all the house of Israel. Torah and commandments, laws and judgements You have taught us. Thus, we thank You, CAUSE our God, when we lie down and when we get up. And set our hearts that we may ponder Your desired laws and rejoice and celebrate in all the words of teaching of Your Torah and Your commandments for eternity and onward, for they are our lives and the length of our days and the light of our eyes and a crown for our heads, and upon them we will meditate day and night. Never remove Your love and kindness and Torah and commandment and awe from us, not forever and ever, for Your Torah is a crown for our heads and our glory forever, selah.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who loves the people Israel alone.

Hear, Israel, the CAUSE is our God, the CAUSE is one.

Next, say in an undertone: — Blessed be the name of the glorious sovereignty for eternity and onward.

And you shall love the CAUSE your God with all your heart and with all your breath and with all your muchness. And these things that I command you today will be on your heart. And you will drill them into your children and speak them when you sit at home and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. And you will tie them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as amulets between your eyes. And you will write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

And it will be, if you listen, really listen to My commandments that I command you today, to love the CAUSE your God and serve God with all your hearts and all your breaths — I will give your land rain in its time, early and late, and you will collect your grain and wine and oil. And I will give grass in the field for your animals, and you will eat and be sated. Guard yourselves lest your hearts be enticed and swerve and serve other gods and bow to them. Then upon you will be the furious anger of the CAUSE, who will close up the heavens that there be no rain, and the land will not give its crop, and you will be quickly lost from the good land that I am giving you. And you will set these My words upon your hearts and your breaths, and you will tie them as a sign on your hands, and they will be as amulets between your eyes. And you and your children will study them to speak them when you sit at home and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. And you will write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. Thus your days and your children’s days upon the land that the CAUSE has promised your ancestors will be made as long as the days of the heaven upon the earth.

And the CAUSE spoke to Moses and said: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them to make themselves fringes on the corners of their clothes in their generations, and put on the corner-fringes a sky-blue thread. And they will be fringes for you, and you will see them and remember all the commandments of the CAUSE and do them, rather than going after your hearts and after your eyes after which you would whore yourselves. Thus you will remember and do My commandments and be holy to your God. I am the CAUSE your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be a God to you; I am the CAUSE your God.

True and faithful is all this, enduring upon us, for this is the CAUSE our God and we are Israel God’s people and the flock God pastures. True, God is our Sovereign ‚— there is none God’s equal and none God’s value. Our Liberator from the hand of rulers, our Redeemer from the palm of all despots; the God who repaid our stressors and gave what was due to all our souls’ enemies. The Placer of our souls in life, who never lets our feet slip. Our Guide upon our enemies’ high places, who lifts our horns over all who hate us. The God who does for us avenging miracles against Pharaoh, signs and wonders in the land of the children of Ḥam. The passing-over Slayer of all the firstborn of Masr,^[14] The Arabic name is used here so as to represent the non-standard vocalization in the Hebrew of this word, mæṣræym rather than the more common miṣrayim.  and Bringer of Israel God’s people from within there, from slavery to eternal freedom. The One who makes God’s children cross between the divisions of the Reed Sea, their pursuers and haters in the sea-depths drowning. And children saw the strength of God’s power and thanked the Name. God’s sovereignty, as desired, they accepted upon themselves. Moses, Aaron, Miriam, and all the children of Israel, as they came out from the sea, to You responded with a song in joy, cheer, happiness, and great jubilation, all answering and saying: Who is like You among deities, CAUSE? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome of praises, doing wonders? To You, Doer of Wonders, from the mouths of babes and sucklings, You hear song to Your name at the shore of the sea. Together in one voice they gave thanks and acclaimed as sovereign and said, this is the Rock of our salvation! They opened their mouths and said: The CAUSE will reign for eternity and onwards! And it is said: for the CAUSE liberated Jacob and redeemed him from a stronger hand than his.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who redeemed Israel.

Let us lie down, CAUSE our God, peacefully, and let us stand up, our Sovereign, for life and peace, and spread over us Your peace-shelter, as spoken where it is said: And My people will sit in a peaceful abode, and in trustworthy dwellings, and in serene resting-places. Blessed be the one who spreads the peace-shelter over us, over Israel God’s people, and over Jerusalem the holy city.

And the children of Israel will keep the Sabbath, to do the Sabbath in their generations as an eternal covenant. Between me and the children of Israel it is an eternal sign, for in six days the CAUSE made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day took a sabbatical and a breather. And the people took a sabbatical on the seventh day. May our eyes see and our hearts be happy and our souls cheer in Your salvation, as You say to Zion, Your God reigns. For sovereignty is Yours, and eternally You will reign in honor, for we have no Sovereign but You.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who reigns in honor over all works forever; lauded be the Name over us always; God is sovereign, has reigned, and will reign for eternity and onwards — amen.

Greatened and sanctified be the Great Name in the world created per desire; and may divine sovereignty reign, and divine redemption sprout, and the sovereignly of God’s anointed come near, and redeem God’s people and gather in the exile of Israel in divine mercy, in our lives and in our day, and in the lives of all the house of Israel, speedily in a time coming soon, and say amen.

May the Great Name be blessed to eternity on to eternity of eternities.

Blessed and lauded and glorified and exalted and exulted and resplended and elevated and praised be the name of the blessed Holy One, beyond all blessings, songs, laudations, and comforts that we say in the world, and say amen.

Next, say in an undertone: — My Master, open my lips that my mouth may tell Your glory.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, our God and God of our ancestors, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. God, great, mighty, and awesome, Highest God, Exalted King who rules over all, repaying merciful deeds and creating all, Who remembers the mercies of ancestors and has compassion on their children and sends a redeemer to their children’s children and their seed after them, for the sake of the Divine Name in love. Compassionate Sovereign, living God, Redeemer, Helper, Supporter, Savior, and Shield.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, shield of Abraham.

You are mighty eternally, CAUSE, you give lives to the dead, and are great in salvation.

From musaf on first-day Passover to musaf on Shmini Atzeret this is said:
 
You send down the dew.

From musaf on Shmini Atseret to musaf on Passover this is said:
 
You turn the wind and send down the rain.

You provide for life in mercy, give lives to the dead in great compassion, support the fallen, heal the sick, help the poor, free the bound, and support the impoverished, and Your faithfulness endures to those sleeping in the dust. Who is like You, Motherly Father, glorious eternally, Master of might, who is compared to you? Sovereign, who deals death and life, brings down and up, Sovereign who gives life to all in great compassion. And You are truly our Soveriegn who gives life to the dead.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who gives life to the dead.

You are holy, Your name is holy, Your commemoration is holy, Your throne is holy, and Your servants are holy, and holy ones always on every day praise You, selah.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, the holy God.

You made the seventh day holy for Your name, foremost of the matters of heaven and earth, and blessed it over all days and sanctified it over all times as is written in Your Torah: And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it God ceased from all the work that God had created to do. And all who observe the Shabbat and call it a delight will rejoice in Your sovereignty — the people that sanctifies the seventh day will all delight and eat and be sated and pleased from the blessings of Your goodness, a commemoration of the matter of creation, first of the holy days, a commemoration of the exodus from Egypt. Our God and God of our ancestors, desire, please, our rest. Bless us, purify us, make us holy in Your commandments, and grant our portion in Your Torah, sate us of Your goodness, and make our souls rejoice in Your salvation, and purify our hearts to serve You in truth, that we may inherit, CAUSE our God, in love and desire Your holy Sabbaths, and your people Israel may rest on them, for they love Your name.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who makes the Shabbat holy.

Desire, CAUSE our God, Your people Israel, and hearken to their prayer, and return the service soon to the sanctum of Your house, and the fires of Israel today are their prayer, and may their prayer and service speedily in love be received in compassion and in will, and may the regular service of Your people Israel be desirable that You desire us, and let our eyes see You eye to eye in Your return to Your oasis Zion, as it was, in compassion. Please, God, please, the Desirer of service, desire our service for Your Name’s sake.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, the God who speedily returns the Divine Presence to Zion.

Thankful are we for You, and we will tell Your greatness and bless Your name, bend over and bow and pray and petition before Your glorious Throne in truth, that You are the CAUSE our God and God of our ancestors for eternity and onward, for our lives are placed in your hand, and for our souls, Sovereign, are entrusted to You , for Your miracles, wonders, goodnesses, compassion, and kindnesses, that you constantly do with us always on every day and at every time, and the Good, for there is no end to Your compassion, and the Compassionate, for your kindnesses will never cease. And for all this, blessed and exalted and lauded be Your name and Your commemoration ever onwards, our Sovereign. And all life will thank You, selah, in truth, Life of eternities, Master of compassion, Sovereign, Sovereign of Sovereigns, Suzerain of all eternities, Knower of the hidden things, for a God full of compassion, of unique are You, and there is none like You, and we thank Your name, and You, living, to bless the good.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, Good is your name, and to You it is pleasant to praise.

Set peace, goodness in relief, and mercy, blessing, and peace upon us, upon Israel Your people. Bless us, our Parent, all as one, to enlighten Your Face, for from the light of Your Face has given us, CAUSE our God and God of our ancestors, Torah and goodness, love and life, grace and kindness, justice and compassion, salvation and honor, healing and cure, blessing and peace, God who sets a great peace from now and to eternity.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who blesses the people Israel and God’s community with peace, amen.

Next, say:
 
“May the words of my mouth and the mutterings of my heart be desired before You, CAUSE, my Rock and Redeemer.”
 
My Rock — in this world, and my Redeemer — in the life of the world to come.

And step back three steps back and say “Peace” — first bowing to the left, then to the right. Next, say:
 
Shabbat to sanctify! And the heaven and earth were completed, and all their multitudes. And God finished on the seventh day the work that God had done, and rested on the seventh day from all the work God had done. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it God ceased from all the work that God had created to do.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, our God and God of our ancestors, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. God, great, mighty, and awesome, Highest God, Exalted King who rules over all, repaying merciful deeds and creating in compassion the heaven and earth.

Shield of the ancestors with a word, giving life to the dead with a statement, the God, Sovereign, Great and Holy, whom none is like, who grants rest to Israel God’s people on the holy Sabbath, for on it God desired to grant them rest. Before God we serve in awe and fear, and thank God’s name every day always, for God sets peace. Spread Your peace over us, and may Your shadow shield. For our sakes, set us as blessed ever onwards, God, Sovereign who makes peace and will spread the peace-shelter over all the assemblies of the house of Jacob, Spring of blessings, great in thanksgivings, Suzerain of peace, who blesses the seventh day, makes the Shabbat holy, and gives holy rest to the contented people, a commemoration of the matter of creation, first of the holy days, a commemoration of the exodus from Egypt.

Our God and God of our ancestors, desire, please, our rest. Bless us, purify us, make us holy in Your commandments, and grant our portion in Your Torah, sate us of Your goodness, and make our souls rejoice in Your salvation, and purify our hearts to serve You in truth, that we may inherit, CAUSE our God, in love and desire Your holy Sabbaths, and your people Israel may rest on them, for they love Your name.

Blessed are You, CAUSE, who makes the Shabbat holy.

Greatened and sanctified be the Great Name in the world created per desire; and may divine sovereignty reign, and divine redemption sprout, and the sovereignty of God’s anointed come near, and redeem God’s people and gather in the exile of Israel in divine mercy, in our lives and in our day, and in the lives of all the house of Israel, speedily in a time coming soon, and say amen.

May the Great Name be blessed to eternity on to eternity of eternities.

Blessed and lauded and glorified and exalted and exulted and resplended and elevated and praised be the name of the blessed Holy One, beyond all blessings, songs, laudations, and comforts that we say in the world, and say amen.

Accept our prayers and be appeased by our petitions that are with the prayers and petitions of all the house of Israel to before the Master of Heaven and Earth, for life in mercy, and say amen.

May the Maker of peace on high in great compassion and vast kindness make peace for all the seed of Israel, and also bless the comforter of Zion, and build in compassion the city of Jerusalem, and say amen.

None is holy like the CAUSE for none are like You, and none is a Rock like our God.

None is like our God, none is like our Suzerain, none is like our Sovereign, none is like our Savior.

Who is like our God, who is like our Suzerain, who is like our Sovereign, who is like our Savior?

Let us thank our God, let us thank our Suzerain, let us thank our Sovereign, let us thank our Savior.

Blessed be our God, blessed be our Suzerain, blessed be our Sovereign, blessed be our Savior.

You are our God, You are our Suzerain, You are our Sovereign, You are our Savior.

You will rise and have mercy on Zion, for it is the season of its mercy, the time has come!

Yet the righteous will than Your name, the upright will dwell with Your Face.

Said Rabbi Elazar said Rabbi Ḥanina: students of the sages increase peace in the world, as it is said, “and all your sons — banayikh — will study the CAUSE< and great will be the peace of your sons.” Say not banayikh — sons — but bonayikh — builders. May there be peace in your walls, tranquility in your palaces. For my brothers and friends’ sake, please, I wish to speak peace in you. For the sake of the house of the CAUSE, I wish good for you. Great peace to the lovers of Your Torah, they will have no falter. The CAUSE prefers the sake of justice, magnifying Torah and glorifying. And we are Your people and the flock You pasture; we thank You to eternity; from generation to generation we will tell Your praise.^[42] Here is a note that reads “Barkhu and Alenu Leshabeaḥ etc.” but it is by the hand of a later editor, and at the time of the book’s writing those passages were not said here. 

Jerusalem, mountains surround her, the CAUSE surrounds the people from now and onto eternity. May the name of the CAUSE be blessed from now and onto eternity. Blessed be the CAUSE to eternity, amen and amen. And blessed be the glorious name to eternity, may God’s glory fill all the earth, amen and amen. And they will bless Your glorious Name and exalt over all blessing and praise. To you, silence is praise,