Shabbat Zemirot - Songs Sung Around the Table
Friday night, Shabbat begins. A time when work ceases and family can spend a relaxing evening together around the dinner table. Here are several traditional zemirot, Shabbat songs, and some newer ones, that you and your family can learn from YouTube and when Shabbat comes, sing around the dinner table. So turn off your electronic devices, and experience the wonder of Shabbat; of eating together, singing together, being together.
Click on each song to get to the YouTube video.
There's A Dinosaur Knocking on My Door
Want more information on Shabbat? Check out Jvillage Network's Shabbat Guide.
What is Shabbat? Intro to the Jewish Sabbath Through Videos
From BimBam
Every week, many Jews around the world take a 25-hour break to recharge and reflect. Learn more about why and how Jews observes the Sabbath in this new video.
Parents and kids – use this karaoke video to learn the blessing together for lighting Shabbat candles from our friends at Temple Sinai Preschool in Oakland and the Shaboom! singers. Practice as much as you want…and Shabbat shalom to your family!
Continue to the BimBam website to download a handy-dandy blessings cheat sheet to post on your fridge and use together!
Want more information on Shabbat? Check out Jvillage Network's Shabbat Guide.
Last Day of Passover in the United States
From TimeandDate.com
This coming Saturday, April 7, is the last day of Passover in the Diaspora except for more liberal strains of Jewish practice, whose last day is April 6.
What Do People Do?
Passover lasts for up to eight days (or seven days among Reform Jewish groups). There are many Jewish people who adhere to most of the Sabbath observances during the last day of Passover. Some may take a holiday around this time of the year. It is also a time for Jewish people to recite special blessings or prayers, as well as visit a synagogue or listen to readings from the Torah and eat a ceremonial meal.
Are you looking for meal ideas until the holiday ends? Check out Jvillage Network's Passover Guide's section: Great Eats for the Entire Week.
Do we do anything special because Seder falls on a Friday night this year?
By RABBI VICTOR S. APPELL for ReformJudaism.org
When the seder falls on Friday evening, we acknowledge both Shabbat and the holiday of Passover. We recite a slightly different candle blessing that includes the words “yom tov” (festival). The Kiddush too, is different, and is sung to a special melody. The Kiddush sung when the seder falls on Saturday night includes a special addition for Havdalah.
Want more information on Passover? Check out Jvillage Network's Passover Guide.
The Meaning of Shabbat Parshat Hachodesh
Daniel Pinner, Arutz Sheva
This Saturday is Shabbat Hachodesh, Sabbath of The Month
The Sabbath preceding the first day of the month of Nisan is called Hachodesh. We read the first mitzvah given to the Jews as a people. With special Torah and Haftarah readings, we read how the first national mitzvah was to take control of our time.