Lighting the candles, breathing deep and trying to bring some of that light inside is how we mark the transition from regular time to Shabbat time. It lets us know when it is time to stop and take a breath." Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi calls Shabbat "a period inserted into an otherwise endless run-on sentence. You can read a little bit more and get the wording for each of the practices below. More descriptions are below, but this will give you a fun overview of what's involved. Our friends at Moishe House and G-dcast have put together a (slightly tongue-in-cheek) video that covers the major rituals of Shabbat dinner in video game format. What we have here are some of the basic rituals of shabbat dinner feel free to add, subtract, alter as needed. It's an incredibly simple way to make sure we have the space we need to care for the seed of eternity planted in our souls. One of the best ways to make Shabbat "happen" is with a meal - some friends or family, some wine, some food and some music. Shabbat can be a respite from the world - a time to step back from what we have to do and take care of some of the things we need to do - laugh, sing, connect, give thanks. Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. He must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of man. He must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisitiveness and the betrayal in embezzling his own life. He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation from the world of creation to the creation of the world. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space.
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