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    Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together
    Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together
    Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together
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    Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together

    By Durga Yael Berghard

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    Take your child on a colorful adventure to share the many ways Jewish people celebrate Shabbat around the world. Shabbat Shalom!

    • Beginning in an old Jerusalem market Friday morning, shopping for foods to make Shabbat meals special
    • Setting a beautiful Sabbath table in Australia Friday afternoon
    • Lighting Shabbat candles with a family in Turkey
    • Singing zemirot with relatives in Russia
    • Making hamotzi as a congregation in the United States
    • Parading the Torah scrolls at Shabbat morning services in a synagogue in Germany
    • Relaxing in the peace of Shabbat day in Canada
    • Enjoying a special Sabbath afternoon meal in Morocco

    From Israel to Thailand, from Ethiopia to Argentina, you and your children are invited to share the diverse Sabbath traditions that come alive in Jewish homes and synagogues around the world each week—and to celebrate life with Jewish people everywhere.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 15, 2011
    ISBN9781580235938
    Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together
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    Durga Yael Berghard

    Durga Yael Bernhard has authored and illustrated many books for children, including multicultural books such as Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together; A Ride on Mother's Back, an American Bookseller Pick of the List; Happy New Year; and While You Are Sleeping. Her lift-the-flap book In the Fiddle Is a Song was a Child Magazine Best Book of the Year, and won the Please Touch Children's Museum of Philadelphia Award. Durga Yael Bernhard is available to speak on the following topics: Sabbath Illustration Book-Making Multicultural Children’s Literature Jewish-Themed Art Activities for Children and TeensClick here to contact the author.

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    • 4/5
      Starting Friday afternoon in the Jerusalem marketplace, author/illustrator Bernhard circles the globe through Argentina, Australia, Turkey, Russia, France, America, Ethiopia, Germany, Canada, Morocco, Thailand, and India to explore the different customs and rituals of the Sabbath. Havdalah is recited in a home near the Kotel, as the trip around the world is complete. Colorful ovals of activity accompany the descriptive narrative.

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    Around the World in One Shabbat - Durga Yael Berghard

    Author’s Note for Parents & Teachers

    The story of creation is told all over the world. In the Hebrew Bible, the Sabbath is woven into the book of Genesis, or Creation. When dark and light, sea and land, earth and sky, plants and trees, sun and moon, fish, birds, animals, people, and all the things of the world were complete, God drew a breath and rested. A sanctuary in time was created: Shabbat.

    The Sabbath is observed in different ways by different people. The Hebrew word Shabbat, the Yiddish word Shabbos, or the English term Sabbath all mean rest. For Jewish people everywhere, it is when the sun sets each Friday evening that the Sabbath begins. In six days, the Torah tells us, God created the world, and on the seventh day God rested, setting this day apart forever as holy time. From sundown to sundown, Jews all over the world remember the fourth commandment handed down to them by their ancestors—Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy—and reenact the story of Creation by stopping their weekly labors. We replenish our souls with blessings, prayers, study,

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