Happy Feast!
A blessing said during the feast or close to its commencement.
("And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male servant and your female servant and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates" - Deuteronomy 16:15, and so on: "And you shall be blessed in your feast of joy and in the abundance of the kosher, as his soul and the soul of his friend who is burdened with trouble and with much work and who hopes for salvation, life Berlin Chofek Hanalei and ZO" - Shu"t Breath of life (Mark 12)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
חַג שָׂמֵחַ
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּרָכָה הַנֶּאֱמֶרֶת בַּחַג אוֹ בְּסָמוּךְ לִכְנִיסָתוֹ.
("וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתֶךָ וְהַלֵּוִי וְהַגֵּר וְהַיָּתוֹם וְהָאַלְמָנָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ"- דְּבָרִים טז יָד, וְכֵן:"וְיִתְבָּרֵךְ בְּחַג שָׂמֵחַ וּבְיִתְרוֹן הַכָּשֵׁר, כְּנַפְשׁוֹ וְנֶפֶשׁ יְדִידוֹ הֶעָמוּס בְּטִרְדָּה וּבְרֹב עֲבוֹדָה וּמְצַפֶּה לִישׁוּעָה, חַיִּים בֶּרְלִין החופק"ק הַנָּ"ל וִיצ"וֹ"- שׁוּ"ת נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים סִימָן יב)