This Shabbat, Jews all over the world will read the Torah portion Vayetze. It's a great portion – they all are, of course, but this one really is especially rich. We meet Leah and Rachel, and watch as ...

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In addition to the custom of Shabbos zemiros, we also say extra praises in davening, such as the additions in pesukei d’zimrah and birchas yotzer ohr. The Ohr Zaruah (Hilchos Shabbos 4) explains this ...

We gather around the Shabbat table, put our arms around one other and sing “Shalom Aleichem” — the song that greets the Shabbat angels. By the time we have finished the Shabbat song, three minutes ...

Shabbos is as old as the world itself and has been observed since time immemorial. Tradition teaches us that when G-d completed the world, He rested. More importantly, He gave us Shabbos as a gift - a ...

The angels – the messengers of the Holy One, Blessed be He – arrived bearing with them the gift of Shabbat. They came each week without fail to experience the Jewish people receiving their gift. I ...

Rabbi Marc Angel has just come out with a unique book entitled “Angel for Shabbat.” It is a semi-autobiographical, Modern Orthodox manifesto and Bill of Rights, using the back-drop of the parshiot and ...

There are boulder days, days when life tumbles like a boulder crushing you. Those days we usually can handle. Then there are piranha days, days when you feel like you’re being nibbled to death by ...

Hanna Leah didn’t ask for the Shabbat Angels to show up on the street outside her synagogue Friday night, but she was relieved to see them. “It gives us a sense of security knowing that they are here ...