Sublime

The words al yetze ish mimekomo bayom hashevi’i (Ex. 16:29) are not to be taken as a command: “No one should leave their place on the seventh day,” but rather as a blessing: “No one will have need to depart from their home in search of food” [since a double portion will arrive on Friday].

We receive sustenance daily from Above. 2. Observing the Sabbath does not cause a decrease in income; indeed, it generates a blessing of income. We now continue to learn our third lesson of the manna, the three levels of bitachon.

For 25 hours each week, Jews are required to put aside all work related objects and activities. They are to abstain from activating any form of technological machinery, such as cars, televisions, computers, and phones. In fact, all devices that assist Jews in reaching out of themselves into the outer world and impacting it are off limits.

Shabbos is a concrete commitment that is life-affirming, joyous, and intensely pleasurable, but also demanding. To receive Shabbos’s blessings most fully, one must be truly open to them, ready to embrace them and ready for the stretch that the embrace entails.

In a very real sense, the covenant is vulnerable to history and must be ratified again and again. The holiday of Shavuot is the response to these concerns. Shavuot celebrates and renews the covenant of the Jewish people.

Devarim 15:8. Kesubos 67b infers from the Hebrew phrase employed that the mitzvah of giving charity involves giving a person not merely enough to satisfy his basic necessities, but also enough to enable him to maintain

Lors d’un service du shabbat, la lecture de la Torah est suivie d’une Haftarah

A merchant is permitted to take some superior produce and other inferior produce from several sources and place them in one granary from which he sells, even if the inferior produce is not obvious because there is so little of it or because its appearance resembles that of the higher quality produce. [The rationale is that] since everyone knows tha