Sabbath Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Judaism== {{main|Shabbat}} {{See also|Hebrew calendar}} Jewish ''[[Shabbat]]'' (''Shabbath'', ''Shabbes'', ''Shobos'', etc.) is a weekly day of rest, observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. [[Activities prohibited on Shabbat|Thirty-nine activities prohibited on ''Shabbat'']] are listed in Tractate ''[[Shabbat (Talmud)]]''. Customarily, ''Shabbat'' is ushered in by lighting [[candle]]s shortly before sunset, at [[halakhic]]ally calculated times that change weekly and geographically. ''Shabbat'' is a widely noted hallmark of the Jewish people. Several weekly ''Shabbat''s per year are designated as [[Special Sabbaths]], such as ''[[Shabbat haGadol]]'', prior to [[Pesach]] (literally, "the High Sabbath", but not to be confused with other [[High Sabbaths]]); and ''Shabbat Teshuvah'', prior to [[Yom Kippur]] ("Repentance Sabbath"). While Shabbat is universally considered by Jews to take place between Friday at sundown and Saturday at sundown, the [[Reform Judaism#Observance|classical Reform]] movement at its height produced innovations in practice, exemplied by some [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] rabbis such as [[Samuel Holdheim]], who shifted his congregation's Shabbat services to Sundays in imitation of Christians' observance of their sabbath, which takes place on Sunday. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1982_34_01_00_olitzky.pdf |title=The Sunday-Sabbath Movement in American Reform Judaism: Strategy or Evolution |website=AmericanJewishArchives.org |access-date=9 December 2023 }}</ref> (Reform Judaism has since abandoned the practice of holding Shabbat services on Sundays.) ===Shabbaton=== {{Main article|Shabbaton}} Colloquially, in contemporary Israel, the term ''Shabbaton'' or ''Shaboson'' may mean an event or program of education and usually celebration held on ''[[Shabbat]]'', or over an entire [[weekend]] with main focus on ''Shabbat''. Such events are held by youth groups, singles groups, synagogues, schools, social groups, charitable groups or family reunions, can be either multi-generational and wide-open or limited-group, and can be held where a group usually meets or offsite. "''Shabbaton''", rather than just "[[Retreat (spiritual)|retreat]]", signifies recognition of the importance of ''Shabbat'' in the event or program.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page