The seventh day of the week and a day of rest. Also use this tag for questions that apply equally to Yom Tov and Shabbat.
Shabbat or Shabbos is seventh day of the week and a day of rest. Also use this tag for questions that apply equally to yom-tov and Shabbat.
Related tags: melacha-creative-work, borer-separating, kneading-lash, cooking-bishul, melacha-erasing, writing, electricity, cleaning, tying-knots-kosheir, boneh-soter, makeh-bapatish, metaken-maneh, hotzaa-carrying-reshuyot, eruv-chatzerot, muktzeh, amira-leakum and pesik-reisha.
The Shabbat day events tags: erev-shabbat, candle-lighting, kabbalat-shabbat, leil-shabbat, kiddush, chala-shabbat-bread, meal-seudah, zemirot-shabbat, oneg-shabbat, musaf, motzei-shabbos and havdalah
Also see: parshanut-torah-comment, maseches-shabbos and eiruvin
Shabbat (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, Modern Shabbat Tiberian Šabbāṯ, Ashkenazi pronunciation: Shabbos, Yiddish: שבת [ʃabəs], in English: the Sabbath, "rest" or "cessation") is the seventh day of the Jewish week and a day of rest in Judaism. Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until a few minutes after the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. The exact times, therefore, differ from week to week and from place to place, depending on the time of sunset at each location. In polar areas where there is no sunrise or sunset at certain times of the year, a different set of rules applies.
On Shabbat Jews recall the Biblical Creation account in Genesis, describing God creating the Heavens and the Earth in six days and resting on the seventh. It also recalls the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, when God commanded the Israelite nation to observe the seventh day and keep it holy.
Shabbat is considered a festive day, when a Jew is freed from the regular labors of everyday life, can contemplate the spiritual aspects of life, and can spend time with family. Traditionally, three festive meals are eaten: on Friday night, Saturday morning, and late Saturday afternoon. The day is also noted for those activities prohibited on Shabbat according to halakha (Jewish law).
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