Word: shabbat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called her to ask her if she could help withthe Oneg Shabbat," Feldstein recalls. Josephsonsaid she was busy, but then showed up at the eventwith...
...dining space, according to Barak Ben-Gal '96, secretary to Hillel's coordinating council, "allows us to celebrate Friday night Shabbat together...
...that made us Jewish--it was the family gatherings at Hannukah and Passover, the special appreciation of Woody Allen, the grandparents who used a bissel (a little) Yiddish. It was corned beef with mustard on rye, not with mayonaise on white. It was having Sunday brunch more religiously than Shabbat meals. It was seeing everyone we knew at synagogue twice a year, and pretending spare ribs didn't count as pork in the Chinese restaurant. And it was suffering an afternoon a week at Hebrew school...
Only in the last few years have I begun to learn the relevance of the rituals to my own life. One thing I now see the value of is the Shabbat, of taking a day of rest. Especially here at Harvard, our lives are so fast paced and busy it is often difficult to see the purpose of our work. To have a day of the week to reflect, to spend time with friends and to think about what is important to us beyond the next test or paper is as important today as it ever was. Although...