Finally, the sabbath round-dance whirls.
But after a 13-year lull in what local residents call the "Sabbath wars," another round started one Saturday in June, when City Hall decided to open a parking lot.
In purely instrumental music a similar joining of motives previously heard separately is encountered in the finale of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique when the plainchant melody "Dies Irae" ("Day of Wrath") is heard together with the theme called "Round of Sabbath".
The novel's muted suggestions toward a plot -- Paddy's quest to find out if witches really do dance naked round the Sabbath Stane; his rejection of both a job offer from an (overdone) caricature of an English twit and his aunt's attempts to cajole him into the Scottish National Party -- may not add up to very much, but it doesn't matter.
No Twitter, no TV in every pub, no smartphones, no bookies open on the sabbath, no 24/7 information merry-go-round.
Christmas morning is the American Sabbath, and it runs, ideally, all year round.
But for special occasions and the Sabbath, others don the shtreimel — a wide, round fur hat, costing into the thousands — which Mr. Lacorazza does not make.
Ofra's rabbi even issued a religious edict that the commandment to settle the land overrides the prohibition on making non-Jewish employees work on the Sabbath, so that construction workers could build round the clock.
Israel's team, which includes five players and two coaches with Baltimore-area ties, informed the FIL of its desire not to play during Shabbat before the schedule was released, and the organization did not schedule Israel to play an opening-round game during this week's Sabbath.
Less fortunate were 1,259 Romans rounded up in Jewish homes on the Sabbath, Oct. 16, 1943.
His blogger pen name is Shtreimel, the Yiddish word for the round fur hat that a Hasidic man wears on Sabbath.
