Contemporary Shabbat Practice

“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
 

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Discuss social justice and eradicating racial injustice at your Shabbat dinner

Host a Shabbat dinner and lead a discussion about food justice!

Host a Shabbat dinner and lead a discussion with your guests about what “A Neighborhood Is…”

Host a Shabbat dinner with these resources and lead a discussion about police and vigilante violence with your guests

A meditation on the healing light of generations and ancestors

Two interpretive versions of the priestly blessing

Torah blessings to be used by non-Jewish partners

An interpretive Amidah for queer Jews

A prayer from T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights to protect human rights and human dignity

Interpretive Amidah translations and meditations for recitation out of doors

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