When we are faced with dark times in a dark world, we have two choices: we can curse the darkness or we can bring light into the darkness.

The Jewish people have an incredible spiritual and musical heritage. One of the most meaningful parts of the Shabbat meal is when we sing Shabbat songs.

As Shabbat approaches, we create a place for the additional neshamah by discarding much of the weekday matter we have accumulated.

After the chaos of the week, when it's time to bless the children on a Friday night, this is our uninterrupted moment to share in, completely.

Shabbat as a bulwark against transhumanism? Ben Judah argues that the laws of Shabbat safeguard something more essential than family time and Friday night dinners…

“It was a long time ago — I am 42 now — but I still think about that Shabbat. That feeling of a great spirit body moving across the face of the dark water is an experience I still marvel at and have never felt again.”

Join author Daniel Browde on a lyrical, mysterious journey back in time to a Shabbat that has stayed with him.

In my twilight years, defined by early Jewish memories, I concluded that, while you can take the girl out of Shabbat, you can't take Shabbat out of the girl.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A time of death. And a time of life. I experienced the immeasurable loss of one person. And I filled the yawning chasm with a sense of belonging to an entire people... This is the story of how one fateful Shabbat changed everything.

I have made plans to spend Shabbat with a super-frum community, who will be unaware that there is a rugby world cup on the go.

This is our time as a family – when I put my phone down, when it’s just us around the table, the candles glowing, the wine sweet.

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

- T.S. Elliot

“…And in the darkness bind them.”

- Gandalf, Lord of the Rings

It’s about Jews embracing their heritage, through practices that will remain unchanged from the first Shabbos till the last.