"Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto the Lord your G‑d. On it you shall not do any manner of work — you, your son, your daughter, your man-servant, your maid-servant, your cattle, and your stranger that is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day, and hallowed it."
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The Fourth Commandment
Remember the Shabbat...
Art by Sefira Lightstone
The creation of rest . . . Sarah’s miraculous Shabbat lamp . . . Bread from heaven . . . “Work” defined . . . The invention of cholent . . . Sacrifice and martyrdom . . . Candle-lighting campaign . . . The World to Come . . .
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The different nuances in the Torah's repletion of the Ten Commandments bespeak Shabbat's dual purpose
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With a theater enterprise, tottering is its normal gait. Sometimes it does
totter to ruin, and sometimes it totters to great prosperity. But I cannot
honestly ascribe either result to my observing the Shabbat.
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Shabbat: the island of time that defines the Jew’s week. The rituals, the practices, the do’s, and the don’ts of the Jewish Sabbath—and how you can experience it all for yourself.
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In the endless conflict between earth and spirit, sheer weight often
wins out. Shabbat is a reunion with our inner selves, a return to the
primal oneness of our souls
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