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Join Rabbi David as he shares with you how to make Shabbat matter in your home. This short video will walk you through the Friday evening traditions including candle lighting, blessing the children, kiddush, hand washing, hamotzi and Birkat Hamazon. Rabbi David Productions

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The average jew starts Shabbat worship Friday afternoon and ends his or her worship at about sundown on Saturday. Early Friday is a day of great work for the women to prepare the Shabbat for the family.

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The Holy Ark, where the Torah Scrolls are kept, is situated in the front of the synagogue. The Ark is the holiest place in the Synagogue. The Torah scrolls are used profoundly during the Shabbat day of rest.

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JR Ezelle                DJ Denby

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It is prohibited to do any form of melakhah on the Shabbat according to Jewish Law.  Melakhah means work or a deliberate activity. Some Jews even think turning on and off electronics is considered a melakhah. Their are many other things that we consider normal that are against Jewish law on the Shabbat.

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The shabbat is known as the Sabbath in English. Shabbat is described as a bride or queen, as in the popular Shabbat hymn Lecha Dodi Likrat Kallah. The word "Shabbat" comes from the root Shin-Beit-Tav, meaning to cease, to end, or to rest.

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Shabbat day is the most important ritual observance in Judaism. It is the only ritual observance instituted in the Ten Commandments. It is the most important special day in Judiasm.

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Candles are lit a few minutes before sunset. In many communities they light them  18 minutes before sundown but in others they light them 36 minutes before sunset. For the service they say a prayer welcoming the arrival of Shabbat. It is also customary to eat three meals and sing two songs.

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Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night.

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Challah is eaten on Sabbath and Jewish holidays. They eat three meals on the Sabbath. Observant Jews will usually eat Challah at the beginning of a Sabbath meal.

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The model of Shabbat is found in Genesis 2: 1-3: "The heaven and earth were finished, and all their array. On the seventh day God finished the work which God had been doing, and God ceased on the seventh day from all the work which God had done." This explains why jews take the seventh day of the week off. The Shabbat is the only holiday mentioned in the Ten Commandments.

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Judiasm's day of rest and seventh day of the week, on which religious Jews remember the Biblical creation of the world and the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt.