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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:28 am
Keeping Shabbat is a lot more than simply taking the day off from one's job; a lot more than lighting candles. There are 39 categories of work in which a Jew is forbidden to engage on Shabbat. (Click the link; then click and read all the information that's linked to the page. It's amazingly well written and well constructed.) Preparing for Shabbat, too, is a lot more than putting on a clean shirt before services, or looking for the matches just before candle lighting time. And no, candle lighting time isn't 6pm every week. Sometimes it's as early as 3:30 in the afternoon; sometimes it's as late as 9:30 or 10:00 at night. Here's how I learned how to really prepare well for Shabbat: The Shabbat Primer, by Nechoma Greisman and Chana Ne'eman. I don't do my Shabbat prep exactly like they do, but if you're interested, I'll post about my Shabbat prep, and you can see how it's done by someone with an 'outside' job and no children. It's the next best thing to actually being here and watching me do all of it.
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:12 am
Since we're a guild not just for Jews, but for everyone interested in Judaism, I thought I'd mention here that there are only seven mitzvot (commandments) that non-Jews are required to observe, according to the Torah. However, there are only three Torah commandments that Noachides are not permitted to perform (as far as I can recall -- talk to your rabbis, Noachides!): 1. Korban Pesach -- Non-Jews are not permitted to eat of the Passover sacrifice. 2. Shabbat -- Non-Jews must perform a minimum of one act of melachah (often poorly translated as " work") 3. Tzitzit -- Non-Jews are not commanded in the 613 mitzvot, so wearing reminders of the 613 would be akin to claiming to be something that you're not. Consider this post my official welcome to our geirim toshav -- the righteous Gentiles among us. We're lucky to have you.
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:06 pm
I totally read every one of your links. Then saved them to the computer so I could actually read them slowly and figure stuff out.
Just so you know your effort wasn't wasted...
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:42 am
Aw, Dancing, thank you. smile But I never felt it was wasted in the least. Even if no one read the pages I linked here, at least I had the fun and the learning of reading them myself. All the same, I'm very pleased that you did mark the pages and are reading them.
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:04 pm
i think shabbos can be extremely nice spent among friends and family. while i was visiting family in israel recently was able to see how each of the different sects celebrate shabbos w/ their own traditions and songs including tanami(yeminite jews). each group and family have their own little traditions. many shabbos tables i have been at happen to have children of all ages and the father ask what they learned and quiz them on the weekly parsha. its very cute hearing the little kids answer especially when they just begin learning
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:10 am
Shabbos is huge for me. It's perfection in the week.
Daily, every moment, we are constantly creating. For 6 days we are creating none stop. We work, clean, pick up the kids, drop them off at soccer, everything is chaotic. Friday night comes, turn off the power and light candles and family time starts. Sing songs, have a big meal with family and friends, and welcome in the Shekinah. This is the only moment when everything is completed, its a end in the week and a beginning for the new week. Its a time where you can stop what your doing and go back to your 5000 year old tradition and really sink into divinity.
And yes, your links did not go to waste. Thanks, and shalom!
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:05 am
i cant believe i forgot how amazing it was just having a quite shabbos w/ friends and be able to sing zemiros w/o having to worry about kol eisha to our hearts content i think groups of girls/women should do it more often
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:15 pm
I agree. It's one of my favorite things to do, and we should do it a lot more than just monthly on the Shabbat following Rosh Chodesh! Getting to sing, talk, dance, and just be free, without worrying about the presence or delicate sensibilities of the men... it's so precious.
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:33 pm
Divash I agree. It's one of my favorite things to do, and we should do it a lot more than just monthly on the Shabbat following Rosh Chodesh! Getting to sing, talk, dance, and just be free, without worrying about the presence or delicate sensibilities of the men... it's so precious. at some shabbos tables i've been at mainly in israel but alos in the states the men will leave the room and go somewhere else to allow a group of women to sing though i think its very adorable hearing kids sing w/ their parents or just their father especially when they have a harmony we women should just make excusses to get togather to sing, dance, and just to have fun its like kick the men out of the house for an hour or so!
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