Concluding the Sabbath - Habdalah
On Saturday night at the conclusion of Shabbat, we recite the Habdalah or “Separation,” including prayers over wine, fragrant spices, and the light of the candle, and mark the transition back to the weekday. Again, the S&P melody appears in close variants in communities around the world: Amsterdam (Dr. A. Alvares Vega) http://www.chazzanut-esnoga.org/all_material/banden_die_niet_op_CD_staan/LexAVega_aanvulling_NN/mp3/Habdala.mp3 London (Rev. Halfon Benarroch) http://www.spmusic.org/files/ShabbatEnd/p138h_Zakhur_Letov.mp3 http://www.spmusic.org/files/ShabbatEnd/p141a_Savri_Maranan.mp3 London (Rabbi Jonathan Cohen) http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/Song/Pages/Song.aspx?SongID=991#8,136,5483,1394 New York (Rabbi Ira Rohde) http://www.shearithisrael.org/content/habdalah-saturday-evening Rome (Jonathan Pacifici) http://www.archivio-torah.it/audio/tefillot/avdala1.mp3