Here with you beside me, I feel so greatly blessed,
life’s joys can be better when shared with friends and family.
We thank you for being here.
Shabbat is here; it is a time to be together, a time to rest.
As we sit together, feel each others hands as a chain around the table,
we enjoy the feeling of starting our Shabbat together.
As a group, let us release the past week.
Release its joys as well as its sorrows.
The last week is now part of our own personal history.
May its lessons be well-learned.
Allow us to use this Shabbat to help us rest and prepare our mind and body for the week ahead, and may this Shabbat be filled with joy and peace.
-Adapted from Mah Tovu’s Rabbi Ken Chasen and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
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