Shabbat is a 7 letter English word.
You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Shabbat (aabbhst).
If you needed the courses in Western philosophers to appreciate the Shabbat, why the Shabbat?
When our family travels to an unfamiliar place, we often go to the local Chabad for Shabbat.
The rabbis who ruled that we can't use an electric switch on Shabbat already went too far.
Maybe, after his next Shabbat meal with his old friend Shmuley Boteach, he can suggest that they go and really see Hebron.
Like other folks, observant Jews buy disposable tablecloths, he discovers, but the tablecloths are pre-cut for Shabbat use.
There we have experienced weekly fires set by "activists," always on late Friday or on Shabbat.
Then there are the Jews I've met who are very aware of Shabbat, but who tap their touchscreens.
While in Cape Town, I spent a Shabbat evening with forty or so college-age members of the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim.
Almost all of them by then had become Hartman's acolytes, and I began to come regularly to his shul on Shabbat.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, in the Mishnah, rabbis puzzled out 39 activities that constitute work and are forbidden on Shabbat.
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