Shabbat

PREFACE As a someone who was born, raised, and currently practices Catholicism, I wanted to immerse myself in a different religion. Spiritual development played a role in my holistic development as an undergraduate student and I wanted to see this development within other students, in a completely different religion than mine. I have been surrounded by a majority of Christians my entire life. I grew up in a town of 1,500 people where I knew one family who practiced a religion other than…

It was the year 2058 and there were no more religious distinctions in Israel. After centuries of religious war, including the crusades, the Israeli-Arab conflict and the Intifada there was an even worse religious uprising. On April 13th in 2028, Pope John Francis visited Bethlehem for Easter. He was assassinated by Hamas terrorists, Mahmoud El Axan and Muhammed Bin Raji. The five year war that ensued resulted in the deaths of 2,000,000 people and destroyed most of the religious sites in…

The presenting client, Melissa, is a single 32-year-old non-denominational Christian. She attends a small Christian church in her rural town. Recently she has been under pressure for not being married, as being married and raising a family are something she wants, and strongly emphasized in her culture and religion. She has been wondering why “God has waited so long to bring a partner into her life, why He has not answered her prayers.” Although she lives in a small town and attends a small…

Growing up as a Jew enmeshed in the conservative movement, I knew very little of actual practical Judaism; practical in the sense of what a Jew actually practices in daily and yearly observances, such as the Sabbath- otherwise known as Shabbat, praying three times a day- morning services, called Shacharit, afternoon services, Mincha, and night services, Maariv, as well as keeping kosher; specifically, not mixing milk and meat and waiting one hour after eating dairy before eating meat, and six…

The Schindler’s List is Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film, which illustrates the profoundly nightmarish Holocaust. It recreates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Nazi-occupied Kraków first dispossessed Jews of their businesses and homes, then forced them into ghettos and labor camps in Plaszów and finally resettled in concentration camps for execution. It is quite terrifying to think how far the Nazis were able to go with their murderous ideology. Which is the primary…

with spine issues, however it does not mean the children will stay out of trouble or will live a normal life after (2008). Unexpectedly, in the documentary we get a glimpse of Hodes’s life with the kids he has taken into his home. They practice the Shabbat religion together because it gives them a sense of unity, friendship…

In his book titled The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel outlines the transcendence of the Sabbath in terms of the personal relationship between Jews and God. Heschel wrote on how the Sabbath stands as a testament to time for the Jewish people, in that they would be able to withdraw themselves from their secular lives, one day a week, to further appreciate the world God has created. He specifically holds an issue with the increasingly materialistic sense of society and memorably notes how things…

Growing up as a Jew enmeshed in the conservative movement, I knew very little of actual practical Judaism; practical in the sense of what a Jew actually practices in daily and yearly observances, such as the Sabbath- otherwise known as Shabbat, praying three times a day- morning services, called Shacharit, afternoon services, Mincha, and night services, Maariv, as well as keeping kosher= not mixing milk and meat in anything and waiting one hour after eating dairy before eating meat, and six…

Quote: Pg. 132 “We are commanded to study His Torah! We are commanded to sit in the light of the Presence! It is for this that we were created!” Explanation: The speaker is Reb Saunders. He is doing an agitative speech during the Shabbat meal in his shul. He uses Talmudic quotes from different jews to express his idea that Jews are God’s chosen people and they have more duties than the non-Jews. He states that Jews must accept the responsibilities that God gives them. In my opinion…

and adulthood. After the war, he says he grew apart from his father until they were thrown in together at Auschwitz. As a child and an adult, Mr. Wiesel was very focused on his religion and he says, “You went out on the street on Saturday and felt Shabbat in the air. He wrote of his community of 15,000…