Shabbos is for everyone. Shabbos is not working on Saturdays. Shabbos is saying a prayers of thanks to God on Friday. It’s not only for Jewish people. Everyone needs a day off. Life without a day off is slavery and slavery is hell.
Friday night candle lighting ceremony
And for words and music that actually plays in the background, go to the bottom of the page and click the links here. They work beautifully.
It’s also non-alcoholic. Yes, I am a strong advocate for marijuana use. I believe in marijuana more than I believe in alcohol. Global warming is real and it is caused by human insanity. In a world where we need to slow down, this is a good place to start. And of course, if you ever wanted to experience a truly sacred and intimate ceremony, try this one exactly as written.
It is a generally accurate reading of traditional shabbos prayers with a few small twists. The Hebrew prayers are transliterated if you wish to say them and it is also translated into English. It is possible to look at Friday night candle lighting as a series of toasts with wine or grape juice. This is with cannabis instead. I think it works better and I think one gets a closer relationship with nature which is exactly a closer relationship with God.
The following article talks about the problem of how to smoke on shabbos without actually lighting fires. In this case they use a vape bag to hold the cannabis smoke. I suggest we start at the beginning of Golden hour so at least during the ceremony, there is no particular problem with a few rips in praise of God.
There is also some popular music that is included and it’s advised to sing along. Again, it is a traditionally Jewish thing and a particularly Jewish ceremony but I want to make it available universally because I think the whole world needs a religious day off more than anything. We all need to walk with a much lighter carbon footprint. We all need to go green and we all need to be aware of what we’re doing. Nobody’s going to do this for us and there are no heroes to make global warming go away. This is something everybody needs to be responsible for.
If God is nature and nature is God, and I believe in all my heart that this is true, let us say thanks and let’s take a break. At the very least, it’s 1/7th less garbage we put up in the air and one decent step towards rebuilding personal agency and reestablishing ourselves as free individuals. Hopefully this means making more responsible individuals ecologically.
Enjoy and if you try it, let me know what your experience was like. Let’s give thanks for the flowers of life. L’chaim!
Note: because modern rules do not allow music to play in the background, here is the music and the words to the Shabbos ceremony so at least you can sing along before returning to the text. If it plays in the background for you, I can’t tell you how happy I am.
Sometimes I lay under the moon
And thank God I’m breathin’
Then I pray, “Don’t take me soon
‘Cause I am here for a reason”
Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know someday, it’ll all turn around because
All my life, I’ve been waitin’ for
I’ve been prayin’ for, for the people to say
That we don’t wanna fight no more
There’ll be no more wars, and our children will play
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
It’s not about win or lose
‘Cause we all lose when they feed on the
souls of the innocent
Blood-drenched pavement
Keep on movin’ though the waters stay ragin’
In this maze, you can lose your way, your way
It might drive you crazy But don’t let it faze you,
no way, no way
Sometimes in my tears I drown (I drown)
But I never let it get me down (get me down)
So when negativity surrounds (surrounds)
I know someday, it’ll all turn around because
All my life, I’ve been waitin’ for (waitin’ for)
I’ve been prayin’ for (prayin’ for), for the people to say
That we don’t wanna fight no more (fight no more)
There’ll be no more wars (no more wars), and our childre1n will play
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, one day)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
OkOne day (oh-oh-oh)
One day, this all will change, treat people all the same
Stop with the m, down with the hate
One day, 0 all be free and proud to be
Under the same sun, singin’ songs of freedom like
Wah-yo (one day, one day), wah-yo, oh, oh (oh-oh-oh)
Wah-yo (one day, one day), wah-yo, oh, oh (oh-oh-oh)
All my life, I’ve been waitin’ for
I’ve been prayin’ for, for the people to say
That we don’t wanna fight no more
There’ll be no more wars, and our children will play
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day (one day), one day (one day)
One day (oh-oh-oh)
One day, one day, one day
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you’ve gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you’re gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They’re all drinking, thinking that they’ve got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
“Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright”
Singing, “Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!”
Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, “This is my message to you-ou-ou”
There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief
Business men, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody offered his word
Hey, hey
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin’ falsely now
The hour’s getting late, hey
Hey
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Well, uh, outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower
