A Poetic Prayer Memorializing the Sabbath Sacrifice
You instituted the Sabbath, You favored its offerings,
You commanded its specific laws
along with the order of its libations.
Those who delight in it inherit eternal glory,
those who relish it merit life,
and those who love its teachings have chosen greatness.
Even before Sinai they were commanded about it.
[Then you, Lord our God, commanded us to offer on it
the additional offering of the Sabbath in the proper way.]
Translated by Sir Jonathan Sacks.
Notes
Words in brackets do not appear in all manuscripts.
Credits
Tikanta Shabbat (You Instituted the Sabbath), from The Koren Siddur: Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, trans. Sir Jonathan Sacks (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2009), p. 542. Used with permission of Koren Publishers Ltd.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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