Knowra Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat is the Jewish weekly day of rest, beginning at sunset on Friday and ending after nightfall on Saturday. It is marked by cessation from work, prayer, festive meals, and family and communal observance.
Shabbat candles : Candles lit before sunset on Friday to welcome and mark the beginning of Shabbat. Lighting candles is a traditional household act that ushers in Shabbat.
Hebrew calendar : A lunisolar calendar used to determine Jewish months, festivals, and dates. Shabbat recurs weekly within the calendar’s cycle, independent of its lunar months.
Book of Genesis : The first book of the Hebrew Bible, containing narratives of creation, ancestors, and Israel’s origins. Its creation account presents the seventh day as blessed and sanctified.
Sunday observance : Christian practices of worship or rest held on Sunday, the traditional day of Christian gathering. Sunday observance differs from Shabbat’s Friday-evening-to-Saturday-evening timing and Jewish legal framework.
Kiddush : A Jewish blessing over wine or grape juice that sanctifies Shabbat and festivals. Kiddush gives verbal expression to Shabbat’s holiness, often before the evening meal.
Shabbat observance : The practices and restrictions through which Jewish communities keep Shabbat. Observance translates Shabbat’s status as sacred rest into daily choices and rituals.
Ten Commandments : A set of biblical commandments central to Jewish and Christian traditions. Both biblical versions command Shabbat rest, grounding it in creation or liberation from slavery.
Sabbath in Christianity : Christian interpretations and practices concerning the biblical Sabbath and its relationship to Sunday. Christian traditions variously retain, reinterpret, or distinguish Sabbath from Shabbat.
Havdalah : A Jewish ceremony marking the end of Shabbat or a festival, traditionally using wine, spices, and a candle. Havdalah marks the transition from Shabbat back to ordinary time.
Thirty-nine categories of labor : The thirty-nine principal categories of melakhah prohibited on Shabbat in rabbinic law. These categories provide the classic framework for identifying prohibited work.
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