For Shabbos

And merit me in Your mercies to receive the Shabbosoas[112] with great holiness and with happiness and great joy (-of contentment and satisfaction – “chedvuh”), with excitement (-geeluh), joyous singing (-reenuh), ebullient/infectious joy (-deetzuh), and good cheer (-chedvuh), love, and brotherhood, and peace (-Shalom), and friendliness, and great peace (-Shalom). And (You should) help me in Your abundant mercies to keep the Shabbos in accordance to its halacha (-Torah law), and save me on the holy Shabbos from any blunder of the 39 principle (-av) miluchoas (-work, constructive activities forbidden on Shabbos and festivals) and their toaldoas (-derivatives, activities similar to the principle 39) and from all the Rabbinical shivoosim (-similar to the word Shabbos, and in the plural, these are additional strictures to enhance the quality), and it should be then in my eyes as if all my work has been done, and I won’t think then about any work, or business, or commerce, or any interests of the weekdays whatsoever. And I should merit to sanctify my speech on the holy Shabbos with extra and enormous holiness, and my speech on Shabbos should not be like my speech of the weekday, and there should not leave my mouth any idle prattle on the holy Shabbos. And (You should) help me, and merit me to sanctify the Shabbos with all types of holiness, and to honor it with all types of honor, and glory, and splendor, with food and beverage and clean attire, and with a nice abode and nice vessels (-dishes, furniture, appliances etc.) of this physical world, and with a beautiful abode and beautiful vessels in my heart (-abode) and limbs (-vessels)[113], and with song, and with praise, and with joyous singing, and hymns, with happiness and great joy, with great and enormous fear and love (of Hashem), and with wondrous and enormous cleaving (-divaikus) to Your great and holy Name. To the extent that I should merit to draw the holiness of the holy Shabbos upon all the six weekdays, until all the six days of work will be pure and holy with the holiness of the holy Shabbos. And I should merit to humble and nullify the putrid pollution of the (primeval) snake from all the 39 miluchoas (-activities forbidden on Shabbos) of the weekdays, until all the 39 miluchoas, and all my business, and all my commerce will be refined in holiness and great purity in the holiness of the holy Shabbos. And (You should) merit me that I remember Shabbos always, and to prepare a nice portion for Shabbos (already) from Sunday, as it is written (Exodus 20:8), “Remember the day of Shabbos to sanctify it,” remember it from Sunday[114]. And I should merit to fulfill the verse which states (Isaiah 58:13-13), “If you withdraw/refrain your foot because of Shabbos, from doing your affairs on My holy day, and you call (-designate) the Shabbos for/an exquisite delight, (to) the holy (day of) Hashem to be honored, and you honor it by not doing your excursions/routines, not looking to your affairs and speaking regularly (“a word/matter”). Then you will have exquisite delight on/from Hashem and He will set you to ride upon the heights of the world, and He will give you to eat the estate/inheritance of Jacob your forefather because the mouth of Hashem has spoken.” Merciful One, He Who Has Compassion on the Poor, Rock of Israel and its Holy One, rise to our aid, and fulfill our wishes mercifully, and merit us to be attached (-divaikus) to You always, at all time, truthfully and with perfect faith, with holiness and with great purity, as is truly Your good desire, and there should be fulfilled in us the verse which states (Deuteronomy 4:4), “And you (-plural) who are clinging (-divaikus) to Hashem your G-d, are all alive today.” Amen, Netzach (-eternally), Selah, Vu-ed (-forever)[115].

Nachma

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