Category: Shabbat


  • Fencing in the Rose: How Shabbat’s Boundaries Set Us Free

    There’s a powerful line we sing in Shabbos zemer “Ma Yedidut”.  When singing about the beauty of Shabbat, we say “Kashoshanim suga,”,  Shabbat is “like roses that are fenced in.”  Think about that—a rose, fragile and beautiful, needs a fence to protect it. Shabbos is no different. It’s sacred not just because of what it…