Ok, You have the table setup, the house is fairly clean everyone is happy and there is goodwill toward all men. Lets get real.. Everything is going to attempt to assert itself from you doing this. The guy we just made mention of is going to do what he can to see that it doesn’t happen. Believe me my family has had to press on to make Shabbat happen. We have had Fridays where if it wasn’t someone pulling everyone else up then we wouldn’t do it. In the past we wanted to get closer to God and we began to seek him by doing communion every night. We went for about 2 weeks and then we skipped one night then another and so forth till we didnt do it anymore and we went back to our old routine. Shabbat is different as it is not a ritual, but a celebration. We are observing the Sabbath and keeping it holy. Earlier I sent you to the store to get the vaious elements of Shabbat. What I failed to mention is that everyone has a favorite food/drink. For some odd reason I like peach tea on Shabbat and no other time. So I buy peach tea for me. My son likes IBC root beer. My wife likes regular tea or Sprite so I buy both since neither will go to waste in my house. The foods we usually have picked something that everyone likes and cooked ahead of time as nobody likes to wait for something to be cooked after finishing the final element of Shabbat.
Whew.. “Take it away..You got it”- Johnny Canales
The first thing you should do is Tzedakah. Happy are those who consider the poor. My family has a Tzedakah box which we take a little money aside for the expressed purpose of giving to the needy. Someone that is in need of a hand. There are teachings that explain the levels of Tzedakah. This is what I found online and it makes perfect sense. My family also praises God for allowing us to have Tzedakah in order to be a blessing to someone. All giving is blessed but not equally. Reference guidelines below.
- Enabling the recipient to become self-reliant
- Giving when neither party knows the other’s identity
- Giving when you know the recipient’s identity, but the recipient doesn’t know your identity
- Giving when you do not know the recipient’s identity, but the recipient knows your identity
- Giving before being asked
- Giving after being asked
- Giving less that you should, but giving it cheerfully.
- Giving Begrudgingly
Incidentally our church has a Tzedakah box which our pastor hasn’t done the teaching on it and yet it always has something in it. Those families who have given have been getting woderfully blessed. I cant wait for the teaching so that the congregation can walk in a state of blessings!!
Next my beautiful Wife lights the 2 candles. She lights the right one first then the left. She’ll fan in front of her eyes 3 times and cover them. She will recite the following prayer:
Baruch atta Adonai eloheinu melech ha-olam asher kideshanu bemitzmotav ve-tsivanu l’hadlik ner shel Shabbat.- Blessed are you Lord God king of the universe, who sanctified us with his commandments, and commanded us to light the Sabbath candles. She will then say a prayer and it is an importantant one. She will ask for the Lord to release the Miracle Sabbath angels and work on our behalf. She will direct them to work in all aspects in our lives and our friends and loved ones.
I like to tell people that we have a Texan accent to our Hebrew. I try not to butcher the words but when you have never heard Hewbrew before its really hard.
I will then move over to my Beautiful Wife hold her hand look into her eyes as I read from Proverbs 31:10-31. I will say a prayer for her and speak a blessing into her. She is a wonderful woman of God!! (flowers-Hint)
We have a son so we’ll move on to bless him. Genesis 48:20 As the father I will speak a secret in his ear for only him to hear. Ill tell him a loving statement like what a wonderful, kind son he is. What a great child of God. Something really positive that we ourselves would like to hear from our spriritual father. Il will then read the Aaronic Benedition to him and the other children present as his friends almost alway invite themselves to Shabbat.
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26
The girls have their own blessing as the woman of the house will read to them: May God make you like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.
In a true Jewish Shabbat service there is oddly enough no element for the man. My wife came up with her own she holds me and prays for me. Its really nice!! 
(flowers)
We then move to handwashing. Remember that bowl of water and hand towel? I recite as I dip my hands starting with the right hand: Baruch atta Adonai Eloheynu melech ha-olam asher kid-shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzee’vanu al ne’teelat yadaim. - Blessed are You, Lord, our God King of the Universe, whose Presence fills the universe, who has sactified our lives through Your commandments and commanded us to perform this washing of the hands.
We sing a song as the other family members wash their hands..”No limits and no boundries..I see Angels all around me.” We realy play it up..We feel that by washing our hands we remove the limits placed on our hands in this world.
KIDDUSH! My family loves when I just jump up and say this word! it brings the level of excitement up a few notches. We hold our cups with the juice/wine up and I recite: Baruch atta Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, borei p’ri ha-gafen.
Blessed are You, Lord, our God King of the universe, whose Presence fills the universe, who creates the fruit of the vine. We take a big drink from our cups and we get rowdy!
Hamotzi:Here is where the Challah bread comes into play. The bread is salted to signal a new covenant and also because all offerings given at the temple were salted. The Son of Man was also lifted up and glorified. Take both loaves of Challah and lift them up. The following prayer is prayed out loud. Baruch ata Adonai elohaynu melech ha’olam hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz. Blessed are you Lord Our God, King of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth.
At this point Shabbat Begins and the festivities begin. Food is sevred and everyone celebrates!
I apologise for not having his out before last Shabbat. I have many attacks being levied against my family and I. Obviously the enemy does not want you to know what blessings come from fulfilling the 10 commandments by obeying the 4th commandment. I have an apostollic calling to reach out to the gentile Christian Church as a Christian to bring the revelation of what was stolen from us. I seek prayers from both those of the Jewish faith Messianic or Orthodox and Gentiles. Please pray for my family and the peace of Jesusalem and all of Israel. As we go into Passover..”Next year in Jerusalem!!” Shalom!
I will attempt to post the Havdalah today but if i am unable to this is a great resource of infomation.
Hewbrew4christians.com
Baruch Habah B’shem Adonai
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