Evening Service for Sabbaths and Festivals
for thou art our protecting and saving God; thou art indeed a gracious and merciful God and King. Guard thou our going out and our coming in, for life and peace, henceforth and forever. Do thou spread over us thy shelter of peace. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who spreadest the shelter of peace over us and over all thy people Israel and over Jerusalem.
Congregation and Reader:
The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever, that in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he ceased from work and rested.
On Pesah, Shavuoth and Sukkoth:
(Moses announced the festivals of the Lord to the children of Israel.)
On Rosh Hashanah:
(Sound the Shofar at the new moon, at full moon for our feast day. This is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.)
Reader:
Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world which he has created according to his will. May he establish his kingdom in your lifetime and during your days, and within the life of the entire house of Israel, speedily and soon; and say, Amen.
May his great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be he, beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.
The Amidah for festivals begins on page 586.1 Exodus 31:16–17. 2 Leviticus 23:44. 3 Psalm 81:4–5.
