We even recite it on practices that are purely customs, such as lighting Shabbat candles, reciting Hallel on Rosh Chodesh (just Ashkenazim), or reading the other Megillot (Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations) from a parchment scroll (the Vilna Gaon’s custom). Admittedly, the rabbis defend ...
I feel like a better mother, wife and person.When we rush into the time full of high technology, it's necessary for us to pay attention to what we are doing online an d when we shoul d go off.I will always remember the most important thing in my family-“Technology Shabbat".III....
Schneerson died childless and did not designate a successor, leaving the movement without a leader. He remains the movement’s guiding light to this day, his photograph ubiquitous in the homes of his adherents across the world. And in the decades after his death, Chabad’s worldwide expansion...
Thursday we kept close touch with the camp, and there was little improvement…Friday, their was no word, so I was feeling uplifted. Off to the grocery store to get food for a nice dinner. I bought my Shabbat Candles, and picked up some fresh flowers…All set. When I got home I beg...
David Ben-Gurion stressed his vision that the state of Israel would be a moral and social lighthouse for the entire world and thus realize the vision of the prophets: History has not spoiled us by force, wealth, vast areas and people, but it has given us an unusual moral and intellectual...
Shabbat is what that day is for. We didn’t focus on the importance of lighting candles, going to temple or having challah bread. Instead talked about taking time to be with our families and people we love and doing something special – make Challah French toast on a Saturday morning, ...
–Weekly ritual of Shabbat dinner on Fridays (as many have already said). Usually the dinner itself is nothing special because we are getting home late from work (and sometimes it’s takeout). But we light the candles, say the blessing, and have a big family hug and reflect on the wee...
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Shabbat is both a holy day of rest, and a day that should be fun. Shabbat begins a few minutes before sundown. The woman of the house lights the two Shabbat candles. These candles symbolize the purposes of Shabbat: to remember, and to observe. The Jewish book of prayer, the Siddur ...
We light the candles an d sit down to have a big meal.Most people in our lives know they will not be able to contact us by using computers or mobile phones for 24 hours. An d so it has gone every week for three years. We call it our“Technology Shabbat (科技安息日)”which lasts...