Shabbat Gathering: The Shehecheyanu.

Dear Chevrei, as is our custom, we will gather tonight at 5.45p ct to welcome Shabbat. These are the coordinates:

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Meeting ID: 883 8469 4181
Password: 822665
Phone: +1 312 626 6799

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Here we go.

The Shehecheyanu is a special prayer for giving thanks for first time events. We say it to honor the first time we do something such as sitting in the sukkah, or before we eat our first matzah at Passover, or the birth of a child, or when we go to mikvah when we convert to Judaism. And the list goes on and on. It is a special blessing we say on happy occasions which means that some don’t say the blessing at a brit milah as there is pain involved. Ouch!

The blessing is recorded in Talmud in several different places and it goes like this:

Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech Haolam, shehechiyanu, v’kiy’manu, v’higianu lazman hazeh.

Blessed are You Eternal Spirit who has given us life, sustained us and allowed us to arrive in this moment.

And may it be for all of us a blessing.

See you tonight!
Gut Shabbes!

All my love,
brian.

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