Shabbat Chic: Lighting Up The Sabbath Day Together

12/14/12

Lighting Up The Sabbath Day Together

Click HERE to find your local
Shabbat candlelighting times
and weekly Torah portion

Let's enjoy celebrating The Sabbath Day together. Whether you say Shabbat or Shabbos, it means The Sabbath Day all over the world. It means Shabbat candle lighting, Good Shabbos, Shabbat Shalom, Shabbos songs, Shabbat dinner and Sabbath peace. Let's find our local candlelighting times and find a special way to remember the Fourth Commandment together on the seventh day, in all our homes, all over the whole world.

Click HERE to see the Rabbi's answer to,

"Why is Shabbat so good for my soul?"

Mystical beginnings of Shabbat traditions explained

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