הבדלות havdalot

ברכות בשביל הקהל | Some blessings for those you davvened with, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Contributor(s):
Shared on 2018-08-28 – 18 Elul 5778.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included this list of peer blessings for after davvening in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

Blessing over Separation, by Shelby Handler

Contributor(s):
Shared on 2017-11-29 – 12 Kislev 5778.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

The Blessing over Separations was first read by Shelby Handler on Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev at the 2017 ADVA Reunion, a reunion of the community of Adamah Farm fellows and Teva Learning Center educators at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center. . . .

הבדלה | Distinctions (Havdalah) for the end of Shabbat, by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Contributor(s):
Shared on 2013-06-21 – 14 Tammuz 5773.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Wax drips from the braided candle.
Cinnamon tingles the nose
to keep us from fainting
as the extra soul departs.
Stop now. Notice this hinge
between Shabbat
and what’s next. . . .

HAVDALLAH: Prayers for the Holy Separations, by Trisha Arlin

Contributor(s):
Shared on 2010-12-27 – 20 Tevet 5771.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Three short havdallah meditations that culminate in a havdallah prayer/blessing. . . .

מדרשים על אדם הראשון וקלנדס על תקופת החורף | Midrashim on the Origin of the Festival of Kalends on the Winter Solstice by the Primordial Adam

Contributor(s):
Shared on 2010-11-24 – 17 Kislev 5771.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Our Rabbis taught: When Adam HaRishon (primitive Adam) saw the day getting gradually shorter, he said, ‘Woe is me, perhaps because I have sinned, the world around me is being darkened and returning to its state of chaos and confusion; this then is the kind of death to which I have been sentenced from Heaven!’ So he began keeping an eight days’ fast. But as he observed the winter solstice and noted the day getting increasingly longer, he said, ‘This is the world’s course’, and he set forth to keep an eight days’ festivity. In the following year he appointed both as festivals. Now, he fixed them for the sake of Heaven, but the [unenlightened] appointed them for the sake of star worship. . . .


בסיעתא דארעא