Sublime

Shabbos calls a halt to business as usual.

Rabbeinu Tam states that salt extracts liquid absorbed by the weights and thus makes them lighter. Thus when the seller uses them for a sale, he will give the customer less. Since it is the seller’s weights that are regularly used during transactions, storing his weights in salt could lead to the customers receiving less than the amount agreed

moping around the back storeroom of the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the sole Jewish grocery in Chicken Hill.

Abraham ibn Daud.

Still another custom is to bake “Mount Sinai cakes”—honey cakes filled with almonds and raisins—to fulfill the dictum: “Taste and see that God is good” (Psalms 34:9).

believe that the purpose of kashrut is to make eating a special experience and to serve as a reminder of a Jew’s ethical conscience as well as of the other unique teachings of Judaism. To me, distinctiveness and not separation is the Jew’s calling.

the essential posture of Shabbos is trust in God and the gifts of presence and intimacy cultivated by shared space within community.

Kashrut is not simply a set of rules about permitted and forbidden foods; kashrut is a way of life. As with any life-style we adopt, we know we are successful at it when it becomes second nature to us.

Holiness has something to do with the way we consume food, the profound implications of killing for food, and the nature of the community with whom we share this same value system.