Welcome Back! An Etz Chayim Fifth Friday SHABBAT SERVICE Our first hybrid Fifth Friday Service Kabbalat Shabbat • Dancing in the Street • Eight Days a Week L’Cha Dodi (to the tune of With a Little Help from My Friends) Bar’chu • Creation: A Whole New World • Revelation: I Will Sh’ma • Traditional Prayer • V’ahavta: I Feel the Earth Move • Redemption: Rescue Me Hashkiveynu / Lay Us Down: Lean on Me Amidah (“Avodah” / Service) Silent Readings: • Avot v’Imahot: Under African Skies • G’vurot: Let it Rain • K’dushat haShem: If it Be Your Will • K’dushat Hayom: Chelsea Morning • R’Tzeih: Comes a Time • Modim: Kind & Generous • Shalom: Peace Train Healing Prayer: You’ve Got a Friend Aleynu: Get Together Congregation Etz Chayim Mourners’Kaddish: Fire and Rain + Traditional Prayer Palo Alto, CA Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky Birchot Hamishpachah / Parents Bless their Children: Child of Mine + Inclusive Blessing of Children Closing Songs: • Adon Olam (to the tune of Scarborough Fair) • All You Need Is Love Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 1 Kavannah for Our Service: For this Shabbat service many of us are together in person at our beloved Etz Chayim, in some cases for the first time in at least 17 months. Thanks to the blessing of Zoom we were able to share Fifth Friday services throughout the pandemic. During this time, we have explored the following themes: music of Simon & Garfunkel, Soulful Shabbat, Grateful Shabbat, Both Sides Now (singer songwriters), and the Great (Jewish) American Songbook. We experienced new ways of leading songs (i.e. group videos; individuals singing from their homes, sometimes using technology to join voices from multiple locations) and made the very best of our limitations. The Fifth Friday song leaders and many of our congregants are deeply grateful to experience this Fifth Friday Shabbat together, in person, at Etz Chayim. We also are grateful that a combination of Zoom and streaming, managed by very skilled and dedicated Etzniks, will enable so many more congregants to participate from homes or even from vacation spots. Ordinarily, Shabbat provides us with a weekly opportunity to rest and perhaps take in a greater portion of joy than during the first six days of the week. With so many of us together at Etz Chayim tonight, our double portion of Shabbat joy is further amplified (and literally amplified by our sound system!). The “Welcome Back!” service was created by selecting from among the many favorite tunes that have been used at least once within a prior Fifth Friday Shabbat liturgy in place of a traditional prayer. These songs and prayers are like old friends. We hope greeting them tonight will bring delight, the same way we delight in greeting each other – coming together to sing and pray in community. Welcome back!!!! This “Welcome Back! ” Fifth Friday Service was made possible by the collective efforts of Etz Chayim congregants. Special thanks to our Shabbat service leaders, Naomi Temes and Ilona Pollak, who also provided leadership for overall music direction, planning, and coordination. Thanks, as well, to Rhea Feldman and Mitch Slomiak for managing logistics and creating tonight’s siddur, and to Melissa Dinwiddie for proofreading. In addition, we are deeply grateful to Ron Shipper for coordinating all the audio-visual technology required tonight, and for acting as Zoom host. Thanks to our Oneg host, Sue Webber, and much appreciation to our song/prayer leaders and to everyone who helped select the music for tonight’s service. Finally, our continued thanks to both Ellen Bob and Rabbi Chaim Koritzinsky who supported the Fifth Friday team throughout this process. Please note that minor changes in lyrics were made on occasion to better fit the kavannah of the Shabbat service. When words such as “you” are spelled as “Y0u” it is intended to connote an interpretation of addressing G0d or “higher power.” Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 2 Kavannah There are many ways to celebrate Shabbat. This song conveys the possibility of an entire community coming together in song and dance, delighting in each others’ company as we share music together. Dancing in the Street by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson and Ivy Hunter From “Soulful Shabbat” Fifth Friday, 2020 Songwriters: Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, Ivy Hunter | lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Public LLC (Some lyrics have been changed to adapt this song for our service.) Callin' out around the world This is an invitation across the nation Are you ready for a brand new beat? A chance for folks to meet Summer's here and the time is right There'll be laughing, singing For dancing in the street and music swinging Dancing in the street They're dancing in Palo Alto Down in Sunnyvale Even up in the city, Up in Menlo Park Mountain View, Redwood City With our daughters and sons now All we need is music, sweet music There'll be music everywhere All we need is music, sweet music There'll be swingin', swayin' There'll be music everywhere and records playing There'll be swingin', swayin' Dancing in the street and records playing And dancing in the street Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear Just as long as you are there Oh it doesn't matter what you wear So come on everyone. Have some fun! Just as long as you are there Everywhere around the world So come on everyone. Have some fun! There'll be dancing, dancing in the street Everywhere around the world There'll be dancing, dancing in the street. (2X) Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 3 Kavannah It is said by some of our sages that we are given a second soul on Kabbalat Shabbat, which stays with us until Havdalah. In this light, Shabbat can be viewed as both the seventh and eighth day! Eight Days a Week, excerpt, by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney/ Eight Days a Week lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing LtD. From “Beatles Shabbat” Fifth Friday, 2020 (Some lyrics have been changed to adapt this song for our service.) Ooh I need Y0ur lo-vin’. Guess Y0u know it’s true. Hope Y0u need my lo-vin’. Just like I need Y0u. Hold me, love me. Hold me, love me. Ain’t got nothin’ but lo-vin’ -- Eight days a week. Love Y0u every day G0d. Always on my mind. One thing I can say G0d. Love Y0u all the time. Hold me, love me. Hold me, love me. Ain’t got nothin’ but lo-vin’ -- Eight days a week. Eight days a week, I lo----ve Y0u. Eight days a week, is not enough to show I care Ooh I need Y0ur lo-vin’. Guess Y0u know it’s true. Hope Y0u need my lo-vin’. Just like I need Y0u. Hold me, love me. Hold me, love me. Ain’t got nothin’ but lo-vin’ Eight days a week. (2X) Abbey Road Rabbis Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 4 L’CHA DODI (sung to the tune of With a Little Help From My Friends) Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney / With a Little Help from My Friends lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC From “Kumbaya Shabbat” Fifth Friday, 2016 (We begin by singing the verse as a “yai-di-dai” niggun.) REFRAIN: L’chah do-di li-krat kal-lah, Let's go greet the Bride my friend, p’ney Shabbat n’-kab’lah. Let's go meet Shabbat once again. L’chah do-di li-krat kal-lah, Let's go greet the Bride my friend. p’ney Shabbat n’-kab’lah. Let's go meet Shabbat once again. Shamor v’zachor b’dibbur echad Guard and remember in one Divine Word Hishmi’a-nu El ham’yu-chad Our Unique G0d caused us to hear Ad0nay e-chad ush’mo echad Adonay is One and G0d's Name is One L’Shem ul’tif’eret v’lit’hi-lah. Wow! the fame and the beauty and praise! REFRAIN Likrat Shabbat l’chu v’nel’cha Let’s get up and go to welcome Shabbat Ki hi m’kor hab’rachah. For She is the source of blessing. Mei-rosh mi-ke-dem n’suchah Poured forth, primeval, preceding all – Sof ma’a-seh, b’machsha-vah t’chilah, Last created, conceived first. REFRAIN BRIDGE: Hit’or’ri hit’or’ri Wake up! Wake up! Ki va o-rech, Ku-mi o-ri. See – here’s your light: so start shining! U-ri u-ri -- shir dabe-ri Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Say so, sing it! K’vod Ad0nay a-lay-ich niglah. G0d’s glory is revealed through you. REFRAIN (We rise and face west towards where the sunset ushers in Shabbat.) Bo’i v’shalom a-te-ret ba’a-lah Come in peace, Crown of your Husband, Gam b’sim-chah uv’tzoho-lah Come in joy and in song and in dance. Toch emuney am s’gulah. Among the faithful ones of your people ↓Bo’i ↑chal-lah — ↓Bo’i ↑chal-lah! Come in, Bride! Come in, Bride! ENDING REFRAIN: L’chah do-di li-krat kal-lah, p’ney Shabbat n’-kab’lah. L’chah do-di li-krat kal-lah, p’ney Shabbat n’-kab’lah! Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 5 BAR’CHU The call to study Torah Welcome Back! Shabbat, 7/30/2021 • Shabbat Evening Service, page 6 CREATION Kavannah We envision this as a dialogue between G0d and us.