My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
Why Is This Seder Unlike All Other Seders?
nytimes.com
Third, Shabbat can be a mini-holiday that injects joy into our lives each week.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
Freeing the people from the mass of contemporary experiences, Shabbat restores the root and the goal—the Exodus and the messianic vision—to the center of life. Through
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Yet Judaism insists that the past is available and still normative. Judaism celebrates it as a present channel of access to the Eternal and as a source of hope and renewal for the masses. Through the holiday cycle of the year and other rituals, the past can be summoned up to infuse the present with meaning.