Shabbat Project
“There’s a spiritual revolution happening in Israel,” says South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein.
“Shabbat is who we are,” Warren Goldstein, the chief rabbi of South Africa who founded the project, told JNS.
An organizer in San Diego told JNS that she broke down crying but is certain “that we’re going to get through this.”
After nearly two years of being apart, participants in more than 1,500 cities and 109 countries worldwide will return to live activities as part of Shabbat experiences from Oct. 22-23.
They included a personal message from each sender to offer recipients comfort as the world reels from a pandemic and a divisive U.S. election.
“You could attend a challah bake in Singapore, sit in on a Shabbat cooking class in Panama, enjoy Kabbalat Shabbat at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and end off with Havdalah in Colombia.”
One example of Jewish unity occurred amid last week’s rocket attacks. White City Shabbat in Tel Aviv expanded its oversubscribed Friday-night dinner for 1,000 to residents of southern Israel free of charge.
Participating cities will organize challah bakes, family and community dinners, festive prayer services, children’s activities, concerts after Havdalah and more.
