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Shabbat: A source of comfort in a time of turmoil

Now is our chance to seize the gift that is Shabbat.

Four Wonderful Segulot for Shabbat Shira

Here’s your “homework” for the week of Parashat BeShalach and for Shabbat Shira

Parshat Vayeira - Shabbat: Building the Jewish Future - at home

This year, on the Shabbat of parshat Vayeira, let us begin a journey to a brighter Jewish future, let us model our homes on the home of Abraham and Sarah. Let each of us make our home a sanctuary, a spiritual safe-haven, a place of kindness and warmth, faith and connection, filled with the light and joy of Shabbat.

The weekly light of paradise

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.

An extra soul on Shabbat

Candle lighting and the gift of rest

Taking Flight

The case for a tech Shabbat in a too-connected world

The problem is the voices in your head

WOMEN ARE FROM SHABBAT, MEN ARE FROM WEEKDAY

In the unfamiliar world of Shabbat, we are human beings rather than human doings, and what is important is not what we accomplish, but who we are.

Shabbat, demons and taking the plunge

Shabbat isn’t just an expression of our faith in G-d. It’s an expression of G-d’s faith in us.

Turning FOMO into JOMO

As a chronic FOMO sufferer, the idea of Shabbat once filled me with terror. What I didn’t understand was that ceasing to create would make me more creative. That not exerting myself would give me more strength. That being where I am, limited, constrained, here and nowhere else, has alerted me to the boundless joy in my heart and in my life.

Shabbat: A source of comfort in a time of turmoil

Four Wonderful Segulot for Shabbat Shira

Parshat Vayeira - Shabbat: Building the Jewish Future - at home

The weekly light of paradise

An extra soul on Shabbat

Candle lighting and the gift of rest

Taking Flight

The case for a tech Shabbat in a too-connected world

The problem is the voices in your head

WOMEN ARE FROM SHABBAT, MEN ARE FROM WEEKDAY

Shabbat, demons and taking the plunge

Turning FOMO into JOMO

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Shabbat, demons and taking the plunge