Saturday

Saturday offers many ways to observe Shabbat. Sleep late. Attend morning services and hear the Torah read aloud. Have a leisurely lunch with family or friends. Spend the afternoon reading, learning Torah, playing outside, hanging out with friends. Later, you can take a nap or go to a quick afternoon service to hear the Torah read again. Shabbat offers an opportunity to pause—to take a break from our daily activities and responsibilities in order to reconnect with our friends, our loved ones, and creation.

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A poem on the inconsistency of time passing.
roses in hazy summer sunlight
“It’s the kavanah of Shabbat, / not the halakha / which moves me.”
deer on forest path
“The next day, returning from a hike Shabbat afternoon, the time of ra’ava d’ra’avin, desire of all desires, a tune came to me, the Juan the Fuca nigun.”
a pacific beach with a line of trees and a large rock

“Every garment I inherited from you / is something to wrap in”

Wrapping, Embracing

“Open to the holiness inside”

Wide as the Water (Mi Hamokha) Song

“The past and the present are one here”

Shabbat in Berlin

“Shabbat creeps up on my week …”

Shabbat

Things remain uncertain under this sun

Shabbat Kedoshim, 5780

The Reconstructionist Network

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