Brief Bracha for Meals

BRACHAH FOR MEALS

1. Blessed are You, Compassionate Creator, Who provides the gifts of food and friendship, that our souls might be warmed, our spirits uplifted, and our Best Selves nourished. We are deeply grateful, for You have blessed us with family and friends who are vessels of Your love on earth. Bless all who had a hand in bringing this food to our table. Feed us of Your love, and we shall be nourished again. Amein.

2. Bless us, Shekhinah, as we break bread together.  Your unending love binds creation together like a beautiful patchwork quilt where each piece is unique and essential. May this food nourish and strengthen us body and soul so that we may work together to stitch Your quilt of love, Your canopy of peace here on earth. May every hand that helped create this meal be blessed. Holy One of Blessing, Source of goodness, it is pleasing and right to give thanks to You.  Amein.

3. We thank the One Who gives us food to live, and strength to give. We say todah rabah b’chol eit u’v’chol sha’a; thank you every day and at all times and in every hour. Hodu la-Yah ki tovah. Thank You Yah for You are good.

4. V’al ha’kol, anachnu modim lach u’mvarchim o’tach. For everything, we thank You and we bless You.

5. Nish’mat kol chai tivarech et shimcha. The breathing of all life praises Your Name.

6. B’rucha at Yah, eloheynu ruach ha’olam. Blessed are you, Breath of Life, Spirit of the Universe.

7. B’chol l’vav’cha anachnu modim lach. With all our hearts we are grateful to You.

8.  For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Your goodness sends! Todah rabah, Yah.