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As I am sure many others are as well, I pray tonight for peace in our world. I see the violence in the Middle East seeming to continue to spiral out of control and I pray for God’s peace to come and to reign not just in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries, but for God’s peace to come and reign throughout our world. I came across these Sabbath Eve liturgical prayers put together by Rabbi Arthur Waskow by Rachel Barenblat at the Progressive Faith Blog Convention. These come courtesy of Ms Barenblat’s blog and Streetprophets.com

Hashkiveinu - God’s Protecting Care
Help us to lie down in peace, Adonai our God, and to arise again to life. Spread over the world Your sheltering peace. Direct us with Your guidance and save us. Protect and keep us from enmity, illness, violence, want, and sorrow. Remove envy and recrimination from us. Shelter us in the shadow of Your wings, for You are a protecting, redeeming God. You are God, our source of grace and mercy. Guard our going out and our coming in, for life and for peace, now and forever.

Spread over us Your sheltering peace. Blessed are you, Adonai, who spreads a shelter of peace over us all, over all your people Israel, and over Jerusalem.

Baruch atah, Adonai, ha-pareis sukkat shalome aleinu v’al kol amo Yisrael, v’al Yerushalayim.

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Aleinu
May the time not be distant, O God, when all shall turn to You in love, when corruption and evil shall give way to integrity and goodness, when superstition shall no longer enslave the mind, nor idolatry blind the eye. O may all, created in Your image, become one in spirit and one in friendship, forever united in Your service. Then shall your realm be established on earth, and the word of Your prophet fulfilled:

“Adonai will reign forever and ever. On that day, Adonai shall be One, and God’s name shall be One.”
Adonai yimloch l’olam va-ed. V’ne-e-mar, v’haya Adonai, l’melech al kol ha-aretz. Bayom hah (bayom hahu) yih’yeh Adonai echad, ushmo echad.