Mincha for Shabbat Eve is part of the Kabbalat Shabbat service of the traditional weekday siddur. The full Hebrew text with English translation appears below; open it in the free interactive siddur to follow along.
One the eve of Shabbat, on Friday before sundown when Mincha – the afternoon prayer service - is said, one should first include the following additional Psalms, readings and prayers. However, if Fridays happens to coincide with a Festival or Chol haMoed one should not say Psalm 107, but continue on with “פָּתַח אֵלִיָּהוּ” Psalm 107
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His kindness is everlasting. So shall say those redeemed by the Lord, those whom He redeemed from the hand of the oppressor. He gathered them from the lands—from east and from west, from north and from the sea. They lost their way in the wilderness, in the wasteland; they found no inhabited city. Both hungry and thirsty, their soul languished within them. They cried out to the Lord in their distress; He delivered them from their afflictions. He guided them in the right path to reach an inhabited city. Let them give thanks to the Lord, for His kindness and [proclaim] His wonders to the children of man. For He has satiated a thirsting soul, and filled a hungry soul with goodness. Those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, bound in misery and chains of iron, for they defied the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High—He humbled their heart through suffering; they stumbled and there was none to help. They cried out to the Lord in their distress; He saved them from their afflictions. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and sundered their bonds. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and [proclaim] His wonders to the children of man. For He broke the brass gates and smashed the iron bars. Foolish sinners are afflicted because of their sinful ways and their wrongdoings. Their soul loathes all food, and they reach the gates of death. They cried out to the Lord in their distress; He saved them from their afflictions. He sent forth His command and healed them; He delivered them from their graves. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and [proclaim] His wonders to the children of man. Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and joyfully recount His deeds. Those who go down to the sea in ships, who perform tasks in mighty waters, they saw the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. He spoke and caused the stormy wind to rise, and it lifted up the waves. They rise to the sky, plunge to the depths; their soul melts in distress. They reel and stagger like a drunkard, all their skill is to no avail. They cried out to the Lord in their distress, and He brought them out from their calamity. He transformed the storm into stillness, and the waves were quieted. They rejoiced when they were silenced, and He led them to their destination. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His kindness, and [proclaim] His wonders to the children of man. Let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the assembly of the elders. He turns rivers into desert, springs of water into parched land, a fruitful land into a salt-marsh, because of the wickedness of those who inhabit it. He turns a desert into a lake, arid land into springs of water. He settles the hungry there, and they establish a city of habitation. They sow fields and plant vineyards which yield fruit and wheat. He blesses them and they multiply greatly, and He does not decrease their cattle. [If they sin] they are diminished and cast down, through oppression, misery and sorrow. He pours contempt upon distinguished men, and causes them to stray in a pathless wilderness. He raises the needy from distress, and makes their families as numerous as flocks. The upright observe this and rejoice, and all the wicked close their mouth.
Elijah opened [his discourse] and said: Master of the worlds, You are One but not in the numerical sense. You are exalted above all the exalted ones, hidden from all the hidden ones; no thought can grasp You at all. You are He who has brought forth ten “garments,” and we call them ten sefirot, through which to direct hidden worlds which are not revealed and revealed worlds; and through them You conceal Yourself from man. You are He who binds them together and unites them; and inasmuch as You are within them, whoever separates one from another of these ten sefirot, it is considered as if he had effected a separation in You. These ten sefirot proceed according to their order: one long, one short, and one intermediate. You are He who ) C directs them, but there is no one who directs You—neither above, nor below, nor from any side. You have made garments for them, from which souls issue forth to man. You have made for them a number of bodies which are called “bodies” in comparison with the garments which cover them; and they are described [anthropomorphically] in the following manner: chesed (kindness)—the right arm; gevurah (severity, power)—the left arm; tiferet (beauty)—the torso; netzach (eternity, victory) and hod (splendor)—the two thighs; yesod (foundation)—the end of the torso, the sign of the Holy Covenant; malchut (kingship)—the mouth, which we call the Oral Torah; chochmah (wisdom)—the brain, that is, the thought within; binah (understanding)—the heart, by means of which the heart understands; and concerning the latter two [sefirot] it is written, “The secrets belong to the Lord our God”; supernal keter (crown) is the crown of kingship, concerning which it is said, “He declares the end from the beginning,” and it is the skull [upon which the] tefillin [are placed]. Within them is the Name [whose numerical value is] forty-five (spelled thus: יו"ד ה"א וא"ו ה"א) which is the path of atzilut (emanation); and the watering of the Tree [of the sefirot] with its arms and branches just as water irrigates a tree and it grows by that irrigation. Master of the worlds, You are the cause of causes and producer of effects, who waters the Tree through that fountain; and that fountain is as the soul to the body, which is the life of the body. In You, however, there is no similitude or likeness to anything within or without. You have created heaven and earth and brought forth from them the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets; and on earth—the trees, the green herbage, the Garden of Eden, the grasses, the beasts, the cattle, the fowl, the fish, and mankind; in order to make known through them the Supernal Realms, how the higher and lower worlds are conducted, and how the higher worlds may be known from the lower. However, there is none who can know You at all. Without You there is no unity in the higher or lower realms, and You are known as the Cause of all and the Master of all. Each sefirah has a specific Name by which the angels are also designated. You, however, have no specific Name, for You permeate all the Names, and You are the perfection of them all. When You remove Yourself from them, all the Names remain as a body without a soul. You are wise, but not with a knowable attribute of wisdom; You understand, but not with a knowable attribute of understanding; You have no specific place. [You clothed Yourself in the sefirot] only to make known to mankind Your power and strength and to show them how the world is conducted through law and mercy—for there is righteousness and justice which are dispensed according to the deeds of man. Law is gevurah (severity, power); justice is the middle column; righteousness is the holy malchut (kingship); the scales of righteousness are the two supports of truth; hin (measure) of righteousness is the sign of the Holy Covenant. All these are to show how the world is conducted, but not that You possess a knowable righteousness—which is law, nor a knowable justice—which is mercy, nor any of these attributes at all. Blessed is God forever. Amen, Amen.
Beloved of [my] soul, merciful Father, draw Your servant to Your will. [Then] Your servant will run as swiftly as a deer; he will bow before Your splendor; Your acts of affection will be sweeter than honeycomb and every pleasant taste.
Glorious, resplendent One, Light of the world, my soul is lovesick for You; I beseech You, O God, pray heal it by showing it the sweetness of Your splendor. Then it will be strengthened and healed and will experience everlasting joy.
O pious One, may Your mercy be aroused and have compassion upon Your beloved child. For it is long that I have been yearning to behold the glory of Your majesty. These my heart desires, so have pity and do not conceal Yourself.
Reveal Yourself, my Beloved, and spread over me the shelter of Your peace. Let the earth be illuminated by Your glory; we will rejoice and exult in You. Hasten, Beloved, for the time has come; and be gracious unto us as in days of yore.
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