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... other forms of wealth are meaningless. It is this insight about time — patently obvious but frequently forgotten — that makes keeping a Sabbath day both spiritually profound and politically radical. To reclaim time is to be rich. To reclaim a full day every week is to be among the 1 percent. Sabbath...

... in jeopardy at human hands. Sabbath, then, is not only about personal adjustment, relief, mental health, or haven. It doesn’t let the world be what it is the rest of the week, with no thought of its betterment beyond my own. No one can be whole in a broken world. Here Chase’s Sabbath practice falls...

...RON H. FELDMAN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 T he talmud says , “Three things are a foretaste of the world-that-is-coming: Sabbath, sunshine, and sexual intercourse” (Talmud Berakhot 57b). In various ways, all three of these tastes of the messianic era are to be had at Burning Man...

... observe the Sabbath and all Jewish holidays. I’m studying to be­ come a rabbi, and I live here in this remote community of Catholic monks vowed to chastity and obedience. II didn’t come here because of any personal interest in their religious practice. I came here to resolve...

... night—let such a one kindly take the trouble to observe the tears of this very same grandfather at the time ofKabbalat GOD Shabbat (Prayers for Welcoming the Sabbath). Let...

... the piercing every seventh year, it is not talking about the minutiae of an Orthodox Jewish Sabbath. Sabbath. Jewish Orthodox of an minutiae...

..., she’s usually at home all weekend, grading papers and such, so there wouldn’t be many schedule conflicts. The more I thought about it, the more this idea made sense to me. But then I was visited by a shocking insight: My wife had already been my shabbes goy for years—only not just on the Sabbath...

... of American life. • Our harried lifestyle. We need to make time for rest, reflection, and cultivating the inner life. We Jews have a great religious institution in our Sabbath. One day each week the truly pious turn off their cell phones, computers, and TV screens...

... significant Jewish theologians ofthe twenti­ cursed, o f every ill, eth century. Tikkun particularly recommends his books The Sabbath, God In Search of m ilita rism is the Man, The Prophets, and Who Is Man? Rabbi Michael Lemer studied with Heschel at the worst...

... that there was no such thing as a Palestinian. No one one No Palestinian. a as thing such no was there that saying were didn’t run in Jerusalem on the Sabbath, I walked five...

... that Israel to the Divine. For this, a prime example is Sabbath observance, providing clear of evidence providing observance, is Divine.example Sabbath For a Israel to this, the prime of of relation community the the of intimate the intensification) and represents purification fact...

... and chant: In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth — at that precise moment, between the last words and the first, between the standing up and the sitting down and the starting all over again, just as the Sabbath sun burns down into its deepest flame — you decide it’s time...

... at a menorah made of bullets. Remember when we sat up till midnight talking Marx and eating blintzes? We sang Sabbath songs and partisan songs for hours until we knew what to feel . And when we sang, it was then, and only then , that we belonged . The soul sees the cantor riding his mourner’s...

.... The fish identified itself as the soul of a former customer, a pious Hasidic man who’d died, childless, the year before. He’d often bought carp at the shop to chop up and grind into gefilte fish for Sabbath meals for the poor. He said that to be reincarnated as a fish was an honor. At that, Mr...

... are most committed to the big calling who are most in danger of burning out in its pursuit, which is why sabbath and recreation and feasts and fun are so important. If we have faith that everything doesn’t in the end depend on us alone, we’ll be around longer—with a better spirit—so as to do more good...