Week 9 · Torah, People, and Hebrew
Shabbat: Meaning, Time, and Delight
Questions 103–122
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Objectives
Explain this week’s central concepts accurately, respectfully, and in clear language.
Answer Questions 103–122 in complete sentences and correct them after discussion.
Connect belief and law to observable practice in home, synagogue, and community.
Core content
Creation and Exodus motifs; candles, Kiddush, zemirot; melachah; sunset, twilight, and nightfall.
Required reading
Hayim Halevy Donin, To Be a Jew; Aryeh Kaplan, Handbook of Jewish Thought; Chumash with Rashi; the community’s siddur.
Practical observance
Prepare a Friday timeline using the local published candle-lighting time.
Hebrew strand
Practice 10–15 minutes daily: letters, vowels, and ten recurring siddur words. Record one passage that became easier this week.
Homework and reflection
Complete written responses for 103–122; mark every answer that depends on local custom or rabbinic ruling.
Write 150–250 words: “How should this week’s learning change the way I live?”
Record attendance, practice completed, uncertainties, and one question for the sponsoring rabbi.
Rabbinic checkpoint
Explain why melachah means creative labor rather than physical exertion.