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Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the Universe
Baruch atah adonai elohaynu melech ha’olam I’ve been to enough Seder dinners to know that lots of traditional Jewish prayers start with this sentence. So in my book, I wanted to include it. Now I don’t know that Daniel’s mom started her Shabbat prayer with these words exactly when she lighted the Sabbath candles, but I think it’s a safe assumption that she said something like that. I got to thinking about the English translation – specifically “universe.” Nowhere in the NASB do we have the word universe. It doesn’t sound like a Bible word, does it? If Daniel said, “Baruch atah adonai elohaynu melech ha’olam,” what…