Shabbat

After a month filled to the brim with ritual observance, the Hebrew month of Heshvan invites us to holy stillness.

In an era of predictive ideology, Judaism maintains that humans are endowed with free will.

How can I tell when Shabbat starts if it never gets dark?

Are there any Reform temples that still have their main service on Sunday?

Rabbis and Jews argued for a five-day work week in order to be able to observe Shabbat.

Shabbat gives us an opportunity to stop trying to control the world.

The school of Shammai constructed its version of the Sabbath laws on the basis of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of life in the perfect world, yet to come.

Modern Jewish thinkers explore new dimensions of what Shabbat observance can mean.

The ritual marking the end of Shabbat is also performed in modified version at the close of Jewish holidays.

For the ancient Israelites, the Yom Kippur rituals signified a world in which God brought moral order out of chaos.

Shmita, the Jewish sabbatical year, teaches that what we consider normal is just a construct -- and invites us to imagine alternatives.