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ID:217
Can there be a banquet without preparations?

  - Talmud, ShabbatTopics: Shabbat wisdom
ID:271
As busy as a Jew on Friday...

  - Ladino ProverbTopics: Shabbat
ID:1518
On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord.

  - Exodus (Shmot) 35:2Topics: Shabbat Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:1519
No Sabbath laws apply wherever there is doubt that life is in danger.

  - Yoma 8:6Topics: justice and law Shabbat
ID:1520
Sabbath has a flavor of Paradise about it.

  - Talmud, BerakhotTopics: Shabbat
ID:1521
It is the Sabbath, and one should not weep, for healing is nigh to come.

  - Talmud, ShabbatTopics: health and medicine Shabbat
ID:1522
Your talk on the Sabbath should not be like your talk on a weekday.

  - Talmud, ShabbatTopics: Shabbat
ID:1524
The Sabbath never ceases to be.

  - MekhiltaTopics: Shabbat
ID:1525
It was forbidden to break the Sabbath, even when David, king of Israel, died.

  - ToseftaTopics: death Shabbat
ID:1526
Great is the Sabbath, since it outweighs all religious precepts.

  - Midrash Gadol UgdulaTopics: Shabbat
ID:1527
Who observes the Sabbath is as though he created it.

  - MekhiltaTopics: Shabbat
ID:1528
Sabbath is a hint of life everlasting in a world full of rest and repose.

  - Menashe Ben IsraelTopics: Shabbat
ID:1529
More than Israel has preserved the Sabbath, the Sabbath has preserved Israel.

  - Achad Ha'amTopics: Israel Shabbat
ID:1530
No one that feels a real link with the nation in his heart throughout the ages could imagine the existence of the Jewish people without 'Sabbath the Queen'.

  - Achad Ha'amTopics: Israel Shabbat
ID:2029
Three things have a faint savor of the world to come: Sabbath, the sun and married love.

  - Talmud, BerakhotTopics: love death marriage Shabbat
ID:2615
It is permissible to assign charity to the poor on the Sabbath.

  - Eleazar b. PedatTopics: charity Shabbat
ID:2629
The Sabbath and holidays are the primary reason for Jewish endurance and glory.

  - Judah HaleviTopics: holidays Shabbat
ID:2630
The Sabbaths are for rest and the festivals for joy, not for fasting and weeping and crying.

  - MaimonidesTopics: holidays Shabbat
ID:2631
To eat and drink on a festival in the company of your family without providing for the poor and distressed, is not 'the joy of the commandment' but the joy of your stomach. It is a disgrace.

  - MaimonidesTopics: food and drink holidays charity Shabbat home and family sin and repentance
ID:453
One should not ask about demons on the Sabbath.

  - Talmud, SanhedrinTopics: Shabbat
ID:1523
Israel will be redeemed only for Sabbath's sake.

  - Leviticus (Vayikra) R.Topics: Israel Shabbat
ID:2942
The Sabbath was delivered unto you, and not you unto the Sabbath.

  - Talmud, Yoma 25bTopics: Shabbat
ID:2943
The Sabbath was given for the study of the Torah.

  - Talmud, Pesikta R. 22Topics: Shabbat Torah/Bible/Tanach
ID:2944
The Sabbath is the Queen of the week.

  - Talmud, Shabbat 119aTopics: Shabbat
ID:2616
A charity pledge may be taken even on Sabbath eve.

  - Talmud, Bava BatraTopics: charity Shabbat
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