Monday:

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Monday

• http//jewfaq.org/liturgy.htm

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Mourning

• Different periods of mourning.
• Decreasing intensity.

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1- ANINUIT from death to funeral.

• Positive commandments annulled.
• Symbolic meal for the close family

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2. Shiva SEVEN days

• Immediate family
• Family sits on low stools or on floor.
• Luxury items put away.

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Shiva

• Mourning suspended at important festivals.
• Sabbath in mourning.

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Shloshim (Thirty)

• End of 7 period to thirtieth day since burial.
• Parties, music etc. forbidden.

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Avelut

• A year after the death of parents
• Parties, music etc. avoided,
• First 11 months, mourner recites KADDISH prayer
  every day.

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Anniversary of parents death remembered

• After a year, formal mourning is forbidden.
• Prayers may still be made on festival days.

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Day to DayWeek to WeekYear to Year

• Ritual Time is cyclical

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Sabbath / Shabbat(Shabbas)

• Genesis 21-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were
  completed, and all their hosts. On the seventh
  day God completed the work He had been doing, and
  He ceased on the seventh day from all His work
  which He had done. And God blessed the seventh
  day and made it holy, because on it God ceased
  from all the work of creation that he had done.

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Shabbat

• The 7th day is the first thing in the Bible that
  God calls Holy.
• Seven is a symbolic number.

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When is Shabbat?

• There was evening, and there was morning, the
  first day
• Friday evening.
• 18 minutes before sunset
• to
• Sat. night
• when 3 stars are visible (40 min. after
  sunset).

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Importance

• "If the Children of Israel would observe one
  Shabbat properly, the Mashiach would immediately
  come"
• (B. Talmud Taanit 1,1)
• Shabbat has kept Israel more than Israel has
  kept Shabbat (common proverb)

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Idea of Shabbat

• To refrain from creative, purposeful activity.
• God rested, so should people.

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No work.

• 39 classes of work forbidden.
• Tabernacle (Shrine) building
• Observe a Day of tranquility, peace

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A taste of the world to come

• Shabbat liturgy No requests to god to prepare
  worshippers for the Messiah
• On Shabbat, one must life as if Messiah is
  already here.

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Sabbath is a brideSHEKINAH

• Shabbat is queen of all creation.
• Queen Sabbath wed Israel.
• Biblical book Song of Songs is read.

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Main parts of Shabbat

• Home Welcoming Shabbat
• Synagogue for Friday evening (Men)
• Home Friday night
• Synagogue Everyone Sat morning
• Home Havdalah closing.

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This week

• Candlelighting Montreal 642
• Toronto 702
• Havdalah Montreal 742 Toronto 809
• Torah Reading Deut. 299-3020 Nitzavim

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Welcoming Shabbat

• Women typically light 2 candles and then give the
  blessing. Let there be light
• Challa bread
• Wine

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Welcoming Shabbat Family Festival
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Challa
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Havdalah

• Separation
• A return to normal time.

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Holy time

• Shabbat as a Time out of Time

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Issues

• How much work is allowed?
• What technology is permitted?
• Cars?
• Electricity?
• How far can one go?