Sentence examples for shabbat from inspiring English sources

According to the Talmud (Shabbat 21b), the ritually pure oil available at the rededication of the Temple was sufficient for only one day's light but miraculously lasted for eight days; hence the eight-day celebration.

When it was originally announced, synagogues braced themselves for their lowest Shabbat attendance figures in years.

Arlene and her family will be sitting shiva at her Cove Neck home through Sunday evening, with the exception of Shabbat.

Mr. Mesika grew up in Israel, but his mother was born in Casablanca, and his recipes borrow from her Shabbat dinner table and reach across the Mediterranean.

Shabbat candles.

In the newly chic London suburb of Willesden, for instance, a group of unaffiliated young Jews recently spent Friday night and Saturday together in a "Creative Tefila [prayer] Shabbat".

And then this overwhelmingly secular group decided that we wanted to have a kabalat Shabbat [welcoming the Sabbath] service.

In synagogues the command to sacrifice a red heifer to restore ritual purity is read on Shabbat Para, a special sabbath that precedes by a few weeks the festival of Passover (Pesaḥ).

In this first work of fiction to confront Jewish immigration to Brazil, Scliar sought to reconcile intimate Jewish life (e.g., eating gefilte fish and observing Shabbat) with the realities of Brazilian street life (e.g., playing football [soccer] and dancing the samba).

The Bible refers to Yom Kippur as Shabbat Shabbaton ("Sabbath of Solemn Rest," or "Sabbath of Sabbaths") because, even though the holy day may fall on a weekday, it is on Yom Kippur that solemnity and cessation of work are most complete.

Trains and buses do not run on the Jewish Shabbat from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday.