The spiritual view

Shabbat that Elevates Not Just the Secular but Even the Foreign

Ein Aya Shabbat 4, 8

It's common knowledge that Shabbat elevates the secular to be holy, but Rav Kook writes that the ideal Shabbat will elevate even concepts which are foreign to Judaism.

A Deeper Take on Shabbat: Why is This Allowed & That Prohibited?

Ein Aya Shabbat 4, 4

This important lecture helps answer the classic question we all ask: Why are certain things allowed on Shabbat and others forbidden? Rav Kook, based on Kabbalistic sources, explains that the 6 days of creation and the Mishkan- the 2 classic "constrictions" (Tzimtzum) of God, are the anti-thesis of Shabbat. Accordingly only and precisely those 39 types of labor which were done to construct the mishkan correspond to the 6 days of creation, from which we want to rise above on Shabbat, to get a taste of the original Shabbat which preceded creation, and the final Shabbat, when all of creation will be like Shabbat. This basic and beautiful idea is clarified here in a very understandable way

Do You Hate Shabbat?

Is your Shabbat an out-of-this-world spiritual experience? Here's how to make it one.

Shabbat Is Shabbat

Powerful story how Shabbos saved two brothers from bankruptcy and certain death.

Richard Branson and The Ultimate Joy Ride

It's easy to think of life as a trip through a treasure-house of experiences. Climbing Everest. Flying around the world in eighty days, or to the edge of space. The truth is that all the pleasures, all the experiences of this world, are given to us for one reason only: that we might sense to the smallest degree, the taste of life itself. But what is life itself if not our experiences in it?

Why Do We Say Shabbat Shalom?

All right-thinking people in this world want shalom – peace. Why is it that almost since the beginning of time, peace has been elusive and often illusory. Shabbat holds the answer.

Out Of This World

Why do we say "Pnei Shabbat Nekabela"? What does the Shabbos have to do with the face?

Shabbat Candles- How Can Mothers and the Non-Learned Produce Scholarly Kids?

Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 28

How to build a home of Torah even if you are not a rabbi, through clear priorities and genuine identification.