Defining the Mitzvah of Oneg Shabbat.

What is Shabbat Pleasure?

Enjoying the light of the Sabbath candles

http://www.shabat.co.il/howto/candlelighting.htm

Blessing the children

http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/shabbat/blessCD.html

http://www.shabat.co.il/howto/blessing_children.htm

http://www.clal.org/wkly_ritual_life7.html

For girls:

Y’simeikh Elohim k’Sara Rivka Rakhel V’Leah.

May God make you like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.

For boys:

Y’simeikh Elohim k’Ephraim v’khi Menashe.

May God make you like Ephraim and Menasseh.

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Three festive meals

Special Shabbat foods

http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/yreshef/shabbat/mealsCD.html

Cholent

Cholent is a Jewish stew traditionally served on Shabbat for lunch. It can be with meat or it can

be vegetarian, it's very good both ways.

http://www.jcn18.com/scripts/jcn18/paper/article.asp?ArticleID=711

http://www.jcn18.com/scripts/jcn18/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=707

Special plates and silverware

Eating meat!

Drinking fine wine

Speaking words of Torah,the Portion of the Week

Singing Sabbath songs(Zemirot Shabbat)

• Shalom Aleichem• Eshet Chayil • Menucha VeSimcha• Mah Yedidut• Yom Zeh l’Yisrael• Tsur MiShelo

Click on a link to choose a melody. Listen and learn!

Hosting guests

Taking a nap!

Spending time with the children

Making a Blessing overTwo Loaves of Challah

ברוך אתה ה' אלהינו מלך העולם המוציא לחם מן הארץBlessed are You, O Lord our God,

Who brings forth bread from the earth.

Why are the loaves called “Challah”?

Click HERE toread about it.

Greeting people with a Sabbath greeting, Shabbat Shalom!

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/article/issue26/siegel-shabbat.html

Giving sweets to the children

Wearing special clothing

Intimate relations

Taking hikes and pleasure walks

Defining the Mitzvah of Oneg Shabbat.

What is Shabbat Pleasure?