Shabbat Affirmations for Erev Shabbat, by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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date_src_start: 2009-00-00 date_src_end: 2009-00-00 languages_meta: [{"name":"English","code":"eng","standard":"ISO 639-3"},{"name":"Hebrew","code":"heb","standard":"ISO 639-3"}] scripts_meta: [{"name":"Latin","code":"Latn","standard":"ISO 15924"},{"name":"Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri)","code":"Hebr","standard":"ISO 15924"}] Date: 2020-01-19
Last Updated: 2025-06-30
Categories: Erev Shabbat
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., affirmations, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Renewal, כוונות kavvanot
Excerpt: Shabbat Affirmations for erev shabbat in preparation of welcoming the shabbat. . . .
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You can add personal affirmations after reading these.
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I affirm
that God affirmed
and sanctified
the Holy Shabbat;
I raise all toil,
suffering,
and frustration
of the past week
as my sacrifice to God
and let go of it.
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I affirm the model
of our ancestor’s rest
and sanctification of Shabbat.
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I affirm the perfection
of what is in the world,
and I surrender all the urgings
and all the strivings
on the plane of action (Asiyah),
and I offer my body to rest.
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I affirm the union
of my Nefesh
with the Holy Queen and Bride (Malkah Qadishah).
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I affirm the union
of my Ruaḥ with God,
the lover of the infinitesimal and the particular
with God as the Zer Anpin.
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I affirm the union
of my Neshamah
with the resting Creator,
the Revealer of Sinai
and the Redeemer of the days of Mashiaḥ.
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And I affirm the union
of my additional soul, my Neshamah Yeterah
with the Ancient of Days (Atiqah Kadishah)
to whom eternity is ever present.
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I affirm the blessings
that come down for the coming week,
and my willingness to be mindful
of the Holy Shabbat
even in the midst of the week.
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Likh’vod Shabbat,
Shabbat Shalom Oo-M’vorach.
Shabbat Nefesh, Shabbat Ruach. Shabbat N’shama,
Shabbat Shalom Ribbono Shel Olam, Shabbat Shalom.
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These “Shabbat Affirmations” appear in Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Sabbath Supplement to his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi ~ As I Can Say It (for Praying in the Vernacular) (2009).
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Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Name: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Bio: Rabbi Dr. Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, affectionately known as "Reb Zalman" (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014) was one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement. Born in Żółkiew, Poland (now Ukraine) and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy Regime but managed to flee the Nazi advance, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the ḤaBaD Hasidic movement while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served ḤaBaD communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He subsequently earned an M.A. in psychology of religion at Boston University, and a doctorate from the Hebrew Union College. He was initially sent out to speak on college campuses by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in the early 1960s, after experimenting with "the sacramental value of lysergic acid", the main ingredient in LSD, leadership within ḤaBaD circles cut ties with him. He continued teaching the Torah of Ḥassidut until the end of his life to creative, free and open-minded Jewish thinkers with humility and kindness and established warm ecumenical ties as well. In September 2009, he became the first contributor of a siddur to the Open Siddur Project database of Jewish liturgy and related work. Reb Zalman supported the Open Siddur Project telling its founder, "this is what I've been looking forward to!" and sharing among many additional works of liturgy, an interview he had with Havurah magazine in the early to mid-1980s detailing his vision of "Database Davenen." The Open Siddur Project is proud to be realizing one of Reb Zalman's long held dreams.
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Schachter-Shalomi
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/zalman-schachter-shalomi
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Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
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