Shabbat Coursework links

(for general coursework guidance, visit the RS coursework site)

1.    What happens and what it means

• How to keep Shabbat - in pictures
• Shabbat step-by-step
• Shabbat evening ritual
• Havdalah home ritual
• Laws and customs
• 18 little things you can do for Shabbat
• Shabbat
• Learning about the Shabbat service

2.    The hardships and rewards

• Why the Sabbath
• Sabbath Rest
• A taste of light
• Shabbat Light in the Land of the Midnight Sun
• Getting my Shabbat Fix
• Shabbat - Heaven on Earth
• Centrality of Shabbat
• The Best Thing about Shabbat
• The Most Challenging Thing about Shabbat at First
• The Most Challenging Thing about Shabbat Now

3.    Every day should be holy?

• About Jewish holidays (holy-days)
• Jewish festivals
• Holiness in every-day life: kashrut, prayer, Jewish Law - a way of life?, holy artefacts, love, charity
• Also, use the links below to find out about particularly important events in the lives of Jews - birth, Bar Mitzvah, marriage, death 

For further information, try the Shabbat pages on the following general sites:

OU.org

Everything Jewish

The Ultimate Shabbat site

Judaism 101

Virtual Jerusalem

Click on Judaism

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