Kabbalat Shabbat Service Kiddish

Kabbalat Shabbat Service Kiddish

L'Chaim - for or to Life!

The Kiddish recited by the Reader in the synagogue has its origin in the period when strangers were given their Sabbath meal in a room adjoining the Synagogue. Abdurham. writing in Spain early in the fourteenth century, says: " As our predecessors have set up the rule, though for a reason which no longer exists, the rule remains unshaken." - Birnbaum 

The Vayechulu was added before the Kiddush even though it had already been recited during the service for the benefit of women and children who did not recite the evening service (Pesachim 106a).
The words Yom Hashishi - The sixth day, mark the conclusion of the first six days of creation, do not testify to the Sabbath's holiness, and are not part of the Kiddush. Instead, they are attached here because their initials, together with the initials of Vayechulu HaShamayim form the Four-Letter Name of G-d.
The Sabbath is considered a symbol of G-d's creation, and a prologue to the holy convocations, as Leviticus 23 in the listing of Festivals, first mentions the Sabbath.
paraphrased here from the Art Scroll Siddur.

http://siddur.arielbenjamin.com/texts 

- please note that in order to be more egalitarian, this version of the prayer substitutes 

Haveri - friends,  for maranan - gentlemen

Va-y'hi  e-rev,  va-y'hi  vo-ker, 
Yom   Ha-shi-shi. Va-y'chu-lu   Ha-sha-ma-yim   v'ha-a-retz,  v'chawl^ts'va-am. 
va-y'chal  e-lo-him  ba-yom  ha-sh'vi-i,  m'lach-to  a-sher  a-sa 
va-yish-bot  ba-yom  ha-sh'vi-i,  mi-kawl^m'lach-to  a-sher   a-sa. 
va-y'va-rech  e-lo-him  et  yom  ha-sh'vi-i,  va-y'ka-deish   o-to 
ki vo  sha-vat  mi-kawl^m'lach-to  a-sher  ba-ra  e-lo-him   la-a-sot. 
Sav-rei  ma-ra-nan  v'ra-bo-tai! 
[   L'chai-yim!  ] 
Ba-ruch   a-tah,   A-do-nai, 
Ba-ruch  hu  u-va-ruch  sh'mo! 
E-lo-hei-nu  me-lech  ha-o-lam, 
bo-rei  p'ri  ha-ga-fen. 
(  A-mein.  ) 
Ba-ruch  a-tah,  A-do-nai, 
(  Ba-ruch  hu  u-va-ruch  sh'mo!  ) 
E-lo-hei-nu,  me-lech  ha-o-lam, 
a-sher  ki-d'sha-nu  b'mits-vo-tav  v'ra-tsa  va-nu, 
v'sha-bat  kawd'sho 
b'a-ha-va  uv'ra-tson 
hin-hi-la-nu, 
zi-ka-ron  l'ma-a-sei  v'rei-shit. 
Ki  hu  yom  t'chi-la 
l'mik-ra-ei^ko-desh, 
ze-cher  li-tsi-at  Mits-ra-yim. 
[In many congregations, all sing the next paragraph together.] 
[   Ki va-nu  va-char-ta 
v'o-ta-nu  ki-dash-ta 
mi-kawl^ha-a-mim,   ] 
v'Sha-bat  kawd-sh'cha 
b'a-ha-va  u-v'ra-tson 
hin-chal-ta-nu. 
Ba-ruch  a-tah  A-do-nai, 
(  Ba-ruch hu u-va-ruch sh'mo!  )
m'ka-deish  ha-Sha-bat. 
(  A-mein.  )    http://siddur.org/


And it was evening and it was morning—the sixth day.

And the heaven and the earth were finished and all their host. And on the seventh day God had finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and he hallowed it, because he rested thereon from all his work which God had created and made.

Gentlemen Attention! 
Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who createst the fruit of the vine.

Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast sanctified us by thy commandments and hast taken pleasure in us, and in love and favor hast given us thy holy Sabbath as an inheritance, a memorial of the creation—that day being also the first of the holy convocations, in remembrance of the departure from Egypt. For thou hast chosen us and sanctified us above all nations, and in love and favor hast given us thy holy Sabbath as an inheritance.

Blessed art thou, O Lord, who hallowest the Sabbath.

Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who bringest forth bread from the earth.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

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