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מוצאי שבת, מ״ש (motzei Shabbat) - 1) Saturday night. 2) The night after Shabbat ends. Lit. The exit of Shabbat; מַה שֶּׁאֵין כֵּן, משא״כ (mashe'ak, mah she'ein kein) - which is not so; משום הכי, מש״ה (mishum hachi) - because of this; משום זה, משו״ז (mishum zeh) - because of this
The Kabbalat Shabbat service is a prayer service welcoming the arrival of Shabbat. Before Friday night dinner, it is customary to sing two songs, one "greeting" two Shabbat angels into the house [ 30 ] ( " Shalom Aleichem " -"Peace Be Upon You") and the other praising the woman of the house for all the work she has done over the past week ...
Shabbat is a widely noted hallmark of the Jewish people. Several weekly Shabbats per year are designated as Special Sabbaths, such as Shabbat haGadol, prior to Pesach (literally, "the High Sabbath", but not to be confused with other High Sabbaths); and Shabbat Teshuvah, prior to Yom Kippur ("Repentance Sabbath").
The term Motza'ei Shabbat (Hebrew: מוצאי שבת —literally, the going out of the Sabbath) in Judaism refers to the time in the evening immediately following Shabbat, that is Saturday night. It is a time when, following one's declaration of the intention to end Shabbat, it is permissible to resume weekday activities that are prohibited on ...
Day 1 lasts from Saturday evening to Sunday evening, while Shabbat lasts from Friday evening to Saturday evening.) Since some calculations use division, a remainder of 0 signifies Saturday. In Hebrew, these names may be abbreviated using the numerical value of the Hebrew letters, for example יום א׳ (Day 1, or Yom Rishon (יום ראשון)):
This leaves only four days on which Rosh Hashanah is allowed to fall: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (i.e. the first, second, or fourth days of the week, or Shabbat), which are also referred as the "four gates" (Hebrew: ארבעה שערים, romanized: arba'a shearim).
No known Jewish community observes Shabbat on a day other than local Saturday. [17] However, that practical conclusion is reached in two different ways, resulting in somewhat different practice patterns in each case. Following local custom/There is no fixed date line. As noted above, according to this point of view, Shabbat is simply observed ...
While Shabbat 35b refers to medium-sized stars, the Shulchan Aruch rules that since we are unsure what stars are medium or big, we must be stringent to wait for the appearance of small stars. [10] Since this time is not clearly defined, most communities (at least for the end of the Sabbath) wait until around 8.5° of solar depression.