THE SHABBATON #3 @ HOME 2 | The Shabbaton @ Home Welcome back again! t has now been almost 6 and David Reuben, Director of Programmes for months since we last got Mizrachi UK. Huge thanks to them as well as to together nationally for a Gemma Denby from Mizrachi UK for liaising with IUK Community Shabbaton all the communities. at Home. We did not think, when we chose to run Like the last couple of times, tens of thousands of another Shabbaton, that homes all across the UK are joining together both with barely 36 hours before this their communities as well as nationally to celebrate Shabbat, our shuls would have to be closed again. this Shabbat in your homes. Over the last few months it has been inspiring to read We will be launching on Thursday night with a special how Rabbis and communities have made sure that concert for Shabbat featuring one of the Jewish world’s their shuls could open safely and securely. We now top names in music as well as addresses from the Chief wait till we can open them safely again. Rabbi and the Israeli Ambassador. Actually the main reason we chose this Shabbat is that Over Shabbat please enjoy the pack during your it is also the global Shabbat Project. To create a sense meals and throughout the day. And then at 6:30pm of renewal within the community in South Africa in on Motzei Shabbat join us for the first GREAT UK 2013, Chief Rabbi Goldstein offered a simple solution: COMMUNITY SHABBAT AT HOME QUIZ with Jews from all walks of life – across the spectrum of our friends from Etgar. Some of the questions will be religious affiliation, young and old, and from all about the information included in this booklet corners of the country – come together to celebrate this day of rest. Once again a total of over 75 communities from 12 cities across the country are participating in this The initiative was such a runaway success that Shabbaton at home, sending the project into well communities around the world began calling the rabbi over 30,000 homes. asking to participate the following year. And thus The Shabbat Project was born. Once again we want to make the 25 hours of Shabbat as enjoyable and inspirational as possible, linking Since the first project’s inception, thousands of events everyone together, so that no Jew should feel in have been celebrated in more than 1,600 cities around spiritual isolation. Each of the meals is themed to link the world. And it continues to grow. to a different concept of Shabbat as well as halachic We are proud that our third Shabbaton is part of the advice on how to observe Shabbat. Shabbat Project. The global theme this year of the This Shabbat, we once again join into one enormous Shabbat project is ‘Bringing it Home’ a perfect link community, united in purpose and spirit. to our UK Shabbaton at home. Shabbat Shalom and enjoy a very special Shabbat. Once again thank you to our team made up of Rabbi Daniel Fine of Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue Rabbi Andrew Shaw CEO, Mizrachi UK The Shabbaton @ Home | 3 SHABBATON @ HOME #3 TIMETABLE THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER 18:30 Page 2 International Challah make with Seed Welcome from Rabbi Andrew Shaw Page 4 20:00 Introduction to the theme of the Shabbat Launch event with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Welcome from Rabbi Marc Levene Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, Page 5 Her Excellency Tzipi Hotovely and Ishay Ribo Halacha from the Dayan – Shabbat Candles The Friday Night Quiz Page 6 Dvar Torah – Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER Page 7 16:10 Shabbat Story – Yehuda Avner z”l Candle Lighting SHABBAT LUNCH 16:15 Page 8 Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat @ home Most Inspiring Shabbat – Rabbi Daniel & Janine Fine Page 9 Halacha from the Dayan – Kiddush The Core Idea – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks SHABBAT 7 NOVEMBER Page 10 09:00 Spot the Difference Shacharit @ home (Latest Shema 09:25) Page 11 16:00 Dvar Torah – Rabbanit Shani Taragin Mincha @ home Page 12 Shabbat Story – Rabbi Daniel Fine 17:13 Shabbat Out & Maariv @ home Page 13 Shabbat Afternoon Learning 18:30 SEUDA SHLISHIT THE GREAT UK SHABBATON AT HOME QUIZ Page 14 Halacha from the Dayan – Enjoying Shabbat Dvar Torah – Rabbi Daniel Fine Will be featured LIVE on Mizrachi UK Page 15 Shabbat Story – Rabbi Andrew Shaw Facebook and YouTube pages @Mizrachi UK 4 | The Shabbaton @ Home Friday Night INTRODUCTION – THE THREE PHASES OF SHABBAT n Shabbat and Chagim, the Amidah does Thus, in the evening, we think of the birth of time, not contain the thirteen blessings of request in the morning of historical time – the remembered that we say on a weekday, but one blessing past and the living present – and in the afternoon the Odedicated to the sanctity of the day. Uniquely on culmination of time and the world to come, of which Shabbat, this blessing is different for each of the Shabbat is the foretaste. three services on Friday night, Shabbat morning, and Shabbat afternoon. Shabbat becomes a journey through the three phases of faith: Hashem’s Creation of the Universe, His self- On Friday evening, we speak of the Shabbat of revelation to humanity, and His redemptive acts. Creation, in the morning of the Shabbat of revelation Shabbat collectively summons us to build a world at – as it was commanded on Mount Sinai – and in peace with itself because it is at peace with Hashem. the afternoon, we look forward to the Shabbat of redemption. Welcome from Rabbi Marc Levene Our Parsha opens with Avraham offering hospitality have felt obliged to stay. He therefore offered them to to three desert travellers. There are many nuances initially have something outside so they wouldn’t feel in the text which teach us how to offer hospitality; awkward about leaving if they had to leave in a hurry. the fact that he acts with speed and enthusiasm, he This also explains why Avraham served both milky says little and does much, he leads by example and and meaty food. If they were in a rush they could gets other members of his household involved in partake of the light milky food and if they had more the hospitality, and he shows his guests tremendous time, then he had a large lavish meaty meal ready for honour and respect. them to be able to eat at a more leisurely pace. One interesting detail is that he offers his guests to Therefore, Avraham not only had an open heart to sit under a tree and eat. We know that Avraham is a help others but he also had his eyes open to see exactly wealthy man and that he had his famous tent that was what people needed. open on four sides. So why did he leave his guests outside and not invite them to come inside? With this in mind, we hope that we can continue to offer all of our Belmont Community members, exactly The answer is a tremendous lesson in how to perform what you need, during this very difficult time! We acts of kindness. When Avraham was looking to help hope by teaming up with Mizrachi, it will enhance someone he looked to see exactly what that person your Shabbat, at home or in shul and that we as a needed. Being travellers they were on a journey to community can continue to thrive. get somewhere and presumably by a certain time. Had Avraham offered them to come inside, they may Rabbi Marc Levene The Shabbaton @ Home | 5 Halacha from the Dayan: Shabbat Candles ighting candles before After lighting the candles, we close our eyes, and upon Shabbat is a Rabbinic opening them, one recites the blessing of ‘le’hadlik ner mitzvah, generally per- shel Shabbat.’ Customarily, one recites a prayer for the Lformed by the woman of the spiritual success of one’s family too. Upon lighting house. candles, a woman has accepted Shabbat. If any pro- hibited activity still needs to be done, the husband can The goal of the mitzvah is to still do this – as long as it is before sunset. In cases of honour Shabbat and increase need, a woman may stipulate before lighting candles one’s enjoyment of Shabbat. that she will only accept Shabbat later (as long as Many men have the custom of preparing the candles this is before sunset), and she can perform activities first. Most people light two candles, though some add prohibited on Shabbat until sunset. an extra candle for each child they are blessed with. The candles should be lit in a place a person will ben- Around the world, there are different customs as to efit from their light. They should preferably be lit on candle-lighting time. It certainly must be before sun- or near to the table used for the Shabbat meals. When set, and in many communities, candle-lighting is 15 the candles are burning, they may not be moved, and or 20 minutes before sunset. In some areas of Israel the candlesticks remain muktzeh too for the duration (Jerusalem), the siren indicates that candle-lighting is of Shabbat. 40 minutes before sunset. One should not light before plag ha’mincha (which can get as late as 7:30pm in Dayan Shmuel Simons the summer). The Friday Night Quiz 1. Name the top five countries Jewish population in 2020 – Israel, USA, France, Canada, UK 2. Name top five countries in 1900 – Russia, USA, Poland, Hungary, Germany 3.