Greeting and explanation

Candles

Song:	Hiney ma tov
		Hiney ma tov u'ma nayim
		Shevet amim gam yakhad
		Hiney ma tov u'ma nayim
		Shevet amim gam yakhad
		Hiney ma tov, shevet
		amim gam yakhad (2)

Wine

Bread

Song:  Shabbat Shalom/Gut Shabbes Ahykh
		Shabbat Shalom
		Shabbat Shalom
		Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat 
		Shabbat Shalom

		Shabbat, Shabbat,
		Shabbat, Shabbat Shalom (2)

		Shabbat Shalom
		Shabbat Shalom
		Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat 
		Shabbat Shalom

		Gut shabbes ahykh
		Gut shabbes ahykh
		Gut shabbes alleh-men
		Gut shabbes ahykh

		Ah gut shabbes, gut shabbes alleh-men (2)

		Gut shabbes ahykh
		Gut shabbes ahykh
		Gut shabbes alleh-men
		Gut shabbes ahykh

Responsive Reading

All:  (song)  Lekhah dodi, likrat kallah
		Penay shabbat neekahblah

Reader:	The six days of work and effort have passed
		We have all worked hard, 
		our efforts were fruitful
		We are tired in mind
		and body and spirit
		Now we welcome the
		Sabbath rest

All:	Now we welcome the Sabbath rest
	(song)  	Lekhah dodi, likrat kallah
		Penay shabbat  neekahblah

Reader:	The week is active, frenetic, unsettled
		All our needs and wants conflict
		We are torn, and pulled among many demands
		Now we welcome the Sabbath peace

All:	Now we welcome the Sabbath peace
	(song)  Lekhah dodi, likrat kallah
		Penay shabbat neekahblah

Reader:	All week long we put off pleasure
		Do our duty, do what we must
		Accomplish, mechanically, the tasks we are given
		Now we welcome the Sabbath joy

All:	Now we welcome the Sabbath joy
	(song)  Lekhah dodi, likrat kallah
		Penay shabbat neekahblah

All:	Now we welcome the Sabbath rest
		Now we welcome the Sabbath peace
		Now we welcome the Sabbath job
		Now we welcome the Sabbath

		(song)  Lekhah dodi, likrat kallah
		Penay shabbat neekahblah


Theme events:  tie-in to Torah portion
			prepared readings
			song presentation
			invited sharing

Song-standard

Mishpokha announcements

Yortseits

Song:	Mah yah-fey ha-yom
			Mah yah-fey ha-yom
			Shabbat shalom
			Mah yah-fey ha-yom
			Shabbat shalom

			Shabbat, shabbat shalom(3)
			Shabbat shalom

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Followed by coffee and dessert.
Please contact the JCS, either by e-mail to JudithSeid@aol.com or PatMartz@aol.com, or by mail if you would like a fully formatted program (on paper) as a sample for your organization to build from. Please make sure you include a full mailing address. Ours is: Jewish Cultural Society, 2935 Birch Hollow Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108.

The programs we hand out at our First Friday observance contain the brokhes in Hebrew and Yiddish, transliterated and not, as well as the English.