Shabbat Meals

Central to Shabbat are sumptuous meals – Friday night and Shabbat lunch – when families can bond and be inspired. We delight in the Shabbat by partaking of appetizing foods and drinks.

Question: I have been invited over to a Chabad rabbi's home for a Friday night Shabbat meal. Is it proper for me to bring flowers, a bottle of wine, or some other sort of gift? I really don't want to turn up empty handed... Answer: How thoughtful of you!...

I work full time, so I can’t cook anything very special for Shabbat . . .

The meaning behind the laws and customs we observe at the Shabbat table.

Yield: 12 servings Don't keep this dish only for the Sabbath and/or holidays. This tastes just as good as the high-carb version and it's almost "free" for any meal or snack. For fish: 1 medium onion, peeled 1/2 small carrot, peeled 1 whole egg plus 2 egg...

[Here is] another explanation for, "And all things that I have said to you, be mindful of." Rabbi Yehuda began [his discourse] by saying, "Hear, My people, and I will testify about you...there shall be no foreign god among you...I am the...

Rabbi Yehuda began by saying: "Cease [contact] from a man whose breath be in his nostrils ". (Isaiah 2:22) [What kind of person is this verse referring to; doesn't every man breathe?] Here, G-d has commanded man and cautions him to guard himself...

Rabbi Yossi opened his discourse with the verse: "Like the rose among thorns, so is my beloved among the maidens" (Song of Songs 2:2). G-d wanted to make the children of Israel as a reflection of the above, so that they would be one rose on the...

Rabbi Yosi opened [his discourse to explain the verse] and said, "and Bo'az ate and drank and his heart was merry [lit. 'benefited']". (Ruth 3:7) What does it mean, "and his heart benefited"? It means that he said the blessing over his...

Fortunate is the portion of whoever knows how to arrange the praises of his Master in the proper place. Up to this place [until one completes the third Amidah blessing "Atah Kadosh"] there is devotion, blessings, and sanctification as one with...