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A spiritual guidebook to the art of consciously observing Shabbat. Explores a broad range of the day's traditional practices and their spiritual dynamics with the insight and wisdom of Rebbe Nahman of Breslov, one of the most important Hasidic masters.
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • viii INTRODUCTION • 1 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY IN INTRODUCTION • 10 1. CHARITY AND EXPENSES • 14 2. REVIEWING THE TORAH PORTION • 17 3. TRIMMING THE NAILS • 22 4. BATHING AND IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH • 26 5. SPECIAL CLOTHING • 30 6. SAMPLING THE FOOD • 32 7. READYING THE TABLE • 36 8. PRIVATE, SECLUDED PRAYER • 39 9. SONG OF SONGS • 42 10. PSALM 107 AND THE MINCHAH PRAYER • 46 11. REFRAINING FROM CREATIVE LABOR • 50 SHABBAT: THE NIGHT INTRODUCTION • 56 1. CANDLE LIGHTING • 60 2. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (1) • 64 3. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (2) • 68 4. LEKHA DODI HYMN (1) • 72 5. LEKHA DODI HYMN (2) • 75 6. THE SHABBAT PSALM • 78 7.THE MAARIV PRAYER • 82 8. SHALOM ALEIKHEM • 88 9. THE FRAGRANCE OF MYRTLES • 92 10.THE KIDDUSH • 95 11. LECHEM MISHNEH–DOUBLE LOAVES • 100 12. THE FIRST MEAL • 104 13. ZEMIROT–SONGS • 108 14. MARITAL RELATIONS • 112 15. SLEEP • 114 SHABBAT: THE MORNING INTRODUCTION • 118 1. IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH • 122 2.THE SHACHARIT PRAYER • 126 3. READING THE TORAH PORTION • 129 4. READING THE HAFTARAH • 132 5. THE MUSAF PRAYER • 135 6.THE KEDUSHAH DECLARATION • 138 7.THE SECOND MEAL • 142 SHABBAT: THE AFTERNOON INTRODUCTION • 148 1.THE MINCHAH PRAYER • 154 2. READING FROM THE TORAH • 158 3. THE THIRD MEAL • 160 4. A TORAH LESSON • 164 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY OUT INTRODUCTION • 170 1.THE MAARIV PRAYER • 174 2.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (1) • 178 3.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (2) • 182 4. ELIYAHU THE PROPHET • 188 5.THE MELAVEH MALKA MEAL • 192 SOURCES • 197 GLOSSARY • 199 ABOUT THE BRESLOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE • 201 ABOUT JEWISH LIGHTS • 205
About the author
Moshe Mykoff is a writer and translator living in Jerusalem. He has published more than a dozen works, including his best-selling adaptations of Rebbe Nachman's maxims on spiritual growth, The Empty Chair: Finding Hope and Joy and The Gentle Weapon: Prayers for Everyday and Not-So-Everyday Moments (both Jewish Lights), and his translation of seven volumes of Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus, Likutey Moharan (Breslov Research Institute).
Summary
A spiritual guidebook to the art of consciously observing Shabbat. Explores a broad range of the day’s traditional practices and their spiritual dynamics with the insight and wisdom of Rebbe Nahman of Breslov, one of the most important Hasidic masters.
