Why is it that every Friday Night Shabbat meal consists of soup and a main dish of chicken and kugel?

Too Many Rules to Remember After reading all this about Shabbat, I am dismayed to discover that I have not observed many of them, simply because I did not know they existed. Basically on Shabbat I was not aware of the eruv, nor did I know about the restrictions governing air and sea travel, and thus I have inadvertently violated them. I didn't know it was so hard to be a good, observant Jew. My parents and grandparents were what I thought, "Jewish to the core". My Zayde was a shochet, a ritual slaughterer in the family kosher meat market. My father and mother, aunts and uncles were all part owners of the establishment. While we were closed on Shabbat, nevertheless I had never heard of some of the other restrictions that violate the Shabbat. Does that mean I will no longer be written in the Book of Life, if indeed I ever was. In other words, is ignorance an excuse? Reply