“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath, 1951
Candle lighting blessings for a sabbatical year
“May the light of the Shabbat candles cause us all to see each other as part of our shared community”
Video on key-shaped challah
“We do not celebrate Shabbat, / We receive it.”
“each of our homes / a canopy of Sabbath peace”
An alternative ritual for not lighting Shabbat candles
“We don’t have to struggle on without end”
Short kabbalat Shabbat service
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