The angels – the messengers of the Holy One, Blessed be He – arrived bearing with them the gift of Shabbat. They came each week without fail to experience the Jewish people receiving their gift.

When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the ... and I believe when Jews begin to keep Shabbat it, too, can harness God’s blessing ...

Sforno emphasizes that Shabbat is not “Saturday”, “the weekend” or a “day off.” Shabbat is a holy day. Yishayahu 58:13-14 describes the observance of Shabbat and its reward: ...

Our Sages, in the gemara ( Pesachim 117: ), expound, that ‘since the sanctity of Shabbat is established and fixed, its blessing concludes:’Who sanctifies the Shabbat’ - as Hashem alone ...

The Daily Portion, Naso / May you be blessed . . . and protected too In Israel, we have already read Naso, but in the Diaspora, it will be read this coming Shabbat.

After pandemic separation and a recent surge in antisemitism, more young people — Jewish and not — seem to be celebrating the sabbath. By Alyson Krueger Thursday is not technically Shabbat ...

In some homes, Shabbat is “brought in” with singing, blessings for children, ... He added, “Even those who do none of the blessings still gather the family for Shabbat dinner.

They were tailors and shoemakers and barkeepers and middle-men — and they longed for the blessed rest of Shabbat. They were impoverished, and they came to America.

There are multiple ritual practices before the Shabbat dinner. David Pereiras – stock.adobe.com. So why, at the holiest moment of the week, do Jewish parents pass on a blessing from a ...

“I remember feeling so safe in that and feeling so, like, enough,” she said. “I want people to feel like I did at Shabbat dinner. … I want them to get blessed.” ...

Many others still light the Shabbat candles and say the blessings over the challah and wine, but then life, Shabbat, goes on like any other day. I am one of those people.