Shabbos

Shabbos is the holy day of rest. This page provides resources, articles, videos and more to help you or others have an inspiring Shabbos!

Free Morasha Syllabus Shiurim

• Shabbat I: Plugging into the Goals of Life
• Shabbat II: The Shabbat Experience

Free Thinking Gemara Shiur

• Shabbat in Outer Space

The Kabbalat Shabbat Experience Siddur

• Click here to access the Kabbalat Shabbat Experience Siddur

Websites

• Shabbat.com This site is the world’s largest Jewish social network. You can connect with more than 25,000 Jews in 101 countries and host or find a place to eat at a Shabbos Meal.
• Shabbat at aish.com

Blogs

• A New Outreach Resouce: Moral Dilemmas to Share at The Shabbos Table, by Rabbi Yitzi Weiner
• Torah Live Presents: Learning The Shabbos Lingo, by Yisroel Porath

Halachic Articles

• The Candy Wrapper Dilemma, by R. Gil Student
• Making Early Shabbos – Part 1, by Hallachically Speaking
• Making Early Shabbos – Part 2, by Hallachically Speaking
• Shabbos Invitations to the Non-Observant Are you facilitating his violation of Shabbos, which itself is forbidden as lifnei iveir?
• Sabbath Mode A Halachic analysis of the Shabbos Clock.
• The Origins of Shabbos Challah This articles deeply explores the origins of eating Challah on Shabbos.
• Shabbos Articles by Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
• Eruv Online Eruvin in the news and the history of eruvin around the world.
• Halachah in America: The History of City Eruvin 1894-1962
• Reading the Torah Portion Twice and the Translation Once, Shabbos Kodesh Sefer By Rav Itamar Shwartz Translation: Benyomin Wolf

Source Sheets

• More Than Just the Start of Shabbos: Licht Benching! by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Video

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This is a great inspiring video by the band, 8th Day. It is called, “It’s Shabbos Now!” and could be a great video to show at the beginning of a class, get people into the mood for Shabbos or simply forward on to a student.

This video is a comical one that you could use to explain to members/students the importance of an Eruv. It could also be used as a trigger video to start a Contemporary Halacha Class on Eruvin. In this clip, Wyatt Cenac interviews members of the Jewish community in West Hampton Beach, Long Island, about a proposed eruv. Aside from spelling out what an Eruv looks like, and the cultural tensions that exist in the creation of an Eruv in America today, it is also very, very funny.