Top 22 Quotes About Shabbat
#1. My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.
Judy Gold
#2. On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.
Shlomo Carlebach
#3. The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It's a magical, welcoming place.
Sarah J. Maas
#4. In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.
Jill Soloway
#5. It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out.
Charles Dickens
#6. Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
Lynn Schusterman
#7. Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Jewish Law is like musical notation; it gives meaning to the stuff of life by regulating it in time. The Sabbath is its most sacred interval
Judith Shulevitz
#9. I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.
Erica Brown
#10. Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.
Hayim Nahman Bialik
#11. I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.
Jill Soloway
#12. I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.
Pearl Abraham
#13. It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.
Jon Kyl
#14. Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rather die.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.
Amanda Hesser
#16. More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.
Ahad Ha'am
#17. Cold up there, huh?" Yeah, it kind of was. "Stupid down there, huh?" Seth's brows flew up. "For one in such a precarious position, you sure don't know how to talk yourself out of it." "That's because it's hard to reason with idiots." I gave him a cheeky grin. "Why bother?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#18. I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair.
Barbara Honigmann
#19. No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man's personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing ... what was always inside his head.
Albert Goldman
#20. When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#21. The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.
Lynn Schusterman
#22. I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
Joyce Giraud
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