A basic overview of the Shabbat and its rituals.

Congregation Beth Tefilah
1210 Adelaide Street North
London, Ontario N5Y 4T6
(519) 433-7081
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Our week is not made of six day intervals and a seventh day of Shabbat; it is a single cycle of seven days.

Congregation Beth Tefilah
1210 Adelaide Street North
London, Ontario N5Y 4T6
(519) 433-7081
http://www.innerstream.ca
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The prohibition to carry from a private to a public domain on Shabbat is different than the previous 38 melachot of Shabbat.

Congregation Beth Tefilah
1210 Adelaide Street North
London, Ontario N5Y 4T6
(519) 433-7081
http://www.innerstream.ca
http://www.bethtefilah.org
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We are permited to exert ourselves in all manner of work, as long as we don't alter the original course of nature.

Congregation Beth Tefilah
1210 Adelaide Street North
London, Ontario N5Y 4T6
(519) 433-7081
http://www.innerstream.ca
http://www.bethtefilah.org
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The ring of the office and the buzz of the business world are completely absent on this day of rest that we call Shabbat.

Congregation Beth Tefilah
1210 Adelaide Street North
London, Ontario N5Y 4T6
(519) 433-7081
http://www.innerstream.ca
http://www.bethtefilah.org
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How to approach false labor and birth on Shabbat from a halachic perspective.

Fleetwood Synagogue
11 E. Broad Street
Mount Vernon, NY 10552
914-664-7643
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Yerushalayim is not to be divided amongst the Jewish people, but rather is to unite us in one force and one focus.

Beth Jacob Congregation
1223 College Avenue
Columbus, OH 43209
(614) 237-8641
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Why does Shavuot have fewer days than all of the other festival holidays?

Beth Israel Synagogue
1480 Oxford St.
Halifax, N.S. B3H 4B2
902-422-1301
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Once we are in the possession of the Torah there is no longer a need for the healing powers of the Matzah.

Congregation Ezrath Israel
31 Center St., Rabbi Herman Eisner Square
Ellenville, NY 12428
(845) 647-4450
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Why was this time of the year picked for the terrible tragedy of Rabbi Akiva's students, and to abstain from all these things, with happiness turned into sadness?

Beth Israel Synagogue
1480 Oxford St.
Halifax, N.S. B3H 4B2
902-422-1301
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