Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • viii INTRODUCTION • 1 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY IN INTRODUCTION • 10 1. CHARITY AND EXPENSES • 14 2. REVIEWING THE TORAH PORTION • 17 3. TRIMMING THE NAILS • 22 4. BATHING AND IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH • 26 5. SPECIAL CLOTHING • 30 6. SAMPLING THE FOOD • 32 7. READYING THE TABLE • 36 8. PRIVATE, SECLUDED PRAYER • 39 9. SONG OF SONGS • 42 10. PSALM 107 AND THE MINCHAH PRAYER • 46 11. REFRAINING FROM CREATIVE LABOR • 50 SHABBAT: THE NIGHT INTRODUCTION • 56 1. CANDLE LIGHTING • 60 2. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (1) • 64 3. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (2) • 68 4. LEKHA DODI HYMN (1) • 72 5. LEKHA DODI HYMN (2) • 75 6. THE SHABBAT PSALM • 78 7.THE MAARIV PRAYER • 82 8. SHALOM ALEIKHEM • 88 9. THE FRAGRANCE OF MYRTLES • 92 10.THE KIDDUSH • 95 11. LECHEM MISHNEH–DOUBLE LOAVES • 100 12. THE FIRST MEAL • 104 13. ZEMIROT–SONGS • 108 14. MARITAL RELATIONS • 112 15. SLEEP • 114 SHABBAT: THE MORNING INTRODUCTION • 118 1. IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH • 122 2.THE SHACHARIT PRAYER • 126 3. READING THE TORAH PORTION • 129 4. READING THE HAFTARAH • 132 5. THE MUSAF PRAYER • 135 6.THE KEDUSHAH DECLARATION • 138 7.THE SECOND MEAL • 142 SHABBAT: THE AFTERNOON INTRODUCTION • 148 1.THE MINCHAH PRAYER • 154 2. READING FROM THE TORAH • 158 3. THE THIRD MEAL • 160 4. A TORAH LESSON • 164 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY OUT INTRODUCTION • 170 1.THE MAARIV PRAYER • 174 2.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (1) • 178 3.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (2) • 182 4. ELIYAHU THE PROPHET • 188 5.THE MELAVEH MALKA MEAL • 192 SOURCES • 197 GLOSSARY • 199 ABOUT THE BRESLOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE • 201 ABOUT JEWISH LIGHTS • 205

About the Author

Moshe Mykoff is a writer and translator living in Jerusalem. He has published more than a dozen works, including his best-selling adaptations of Rebbe Nachman's maxims on spiritual growth, The Empty Chair: Finding Hope and Joy and The Gentle Weapon: Prayers for Everyday and Not-So-Everyday Moments (both Jewish Lights), and his translation of seven volumes of Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus, Likutey Moharan (Breslov Research Institute).