Shabbat Chic

Celebrating Shabbat, the "island in time" for familes, groups and singles everywhere today

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What Is Shabbat?

Of all the Jewish holidays and festivals, Sabbath is the only one mentioned in the Ten Commandments. Set apart by God as a day of calm retreat and reflection, the Sabbath is considered the most important of all holy days by Jews.
Rabbi Arthur Gilbert

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My 18 Reasons

Click photo to see my 18 reasons to keep Shabbat, and share your own reasons

Shabbat Kids' Song

A Small Sanctuary

Although many Jewish men and women don’t take the time to perform this ritual at home, the Shabbat (Sabbath) candle-lighting ritual represents one of the quickest and easiest, and, therefore, practical spiritual practices I know. You need only clear off the kitchen or dining room table, place a pretty table cloth upon it to prepare your “temple” for Shabbat, or the Sabbath. Even a few small actions will create a mikdash ma’at, a small sanctuary, in your home on Erev Shabbat, the evening Shabbat begins...
Nina Amir

It is customary to light two candles for the two important Biblical references: "Remember the Sabbath" (Exodus 20:8) and "Observe the Sabbath" (Deuteronomy 5:12). However, many families light an additional candle for each child and some people light seven candles for the seven-branched menorah.

Shabbat Menorah

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

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Shabbat Memories

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Freedom of Shabbat

The genius of Shabbat is that it restores a sense of values and priorities. It "forces" Jews to leave their computers and offices, thus reuniting them with friends and family members who more urgently need their attention, their company, and their devotion.
Daniel Gordis

Shabbat Candles

Shabbat Blessings

Click to read and listen to traditional Shabbat blessings for Friday night and Saturday morning.

Shabbat Art

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Challah Tray

Shabbat for a Crowd

Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self...

from The Sabbath by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Shabbat Camping

I think the most delicious Shabbat chicken I ever ate on a Friday night was in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, in September 1973, where I went camping with my roommate... I took a Cornish hen, cut up a raw onion and a raw tomato into a few wedges, and put them in the cavity of the hen, then wrapped the whole thing in aluminum foil, and stuck it into the coals of the fire. Corn on the cob and baked potatoes are also delicious when cooked this way.
Bob Gerver

Click if you're just curious about Shabbat.

Click to see the blessing that men and women say over
Shabbat candles.

Shabbat History

Click photo for some history of Sabbath observance

When the UN tried to change Shabbat

Article from 1956, important for today

Be it ever so humble, there's no Shabbat like home.

Shabbat by Mark G.

In each drop of dripping candles

The spirit radiates

A circle of life

Over heaven, and earth

The beginning to the unknown

Into its illumination of the heart

For something to blossom

As breathing becomes intoxicated

By the weeping melody

Of an element a part of rain

Becoming an open book

A desert flower in the rain

Of worship

reprinted from
poetrycabin.com

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The 7-branch Menorah symbolizes the 7 days of Creation, and the center light represents Shabbat, the centerpiece of our week. Click photo for menorah history on Wikipedia.