Whether you’re a newlywed or have been lighting candles for decades, you’ll find something inspiring and enlightening in this Shabbos Candlelighting guide. Adapted from the Eishes Chayil candlelighting Treasury, Artscroll Mesorah Publications The bracha, impact, and merits of lighting the Shabbos candles Why we light Preparing the candles When to light? Number of Candles What…
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Your Best Early Shabbos Tips, Day by Day
Tips from our readers to help you incorporate Shabbos prep into every day. A couple of years ago, we rounded up some great BCP posts with tips that can help you be more organized for Shabbos, especially important now that we’re entering early Shabbos season! They include posts on How to Get Your Family Involved…
Feel Good Crunchy Bean Salad
The gorgeous bean salad you’ll actually love (and look forward to enjoying). To me, bean salads were always old-fashioned, cop-out, straight-from-the-can processed types of salads that I would never want to touch. Not this one. Totally not. It’s a shame that beans get neglected because they could totally be amazing and so healthy. This is…
Masmidei HaShabbos: Let’s Elevate Shabbos Together
We’ve already been enjoying the Ki Heim Chayeinu Masmidei HaShabbos campaign, here’s the full review you’ve been waiting for. We’ve been enjoying the Masmidei HaShabbos booklets (if you don’t know what these are, read our previous round-up here!), so today we’re going to go through the booklets to show you what you can expect from…
It’s Everyone’s Favorite Day Of The Week: Can We Take It To The Next Level?
We’re so excited to be back with the Masmidei HaShabbos program, taking our kids’ excitement and appreciation for Shabbos to the next level. Get all the details below and download the booklets over here! Last year, we joined our kids in Agudah’s Ki Heim Chayeinu Masmidei HaShabbos campaign. Some of our kids received booklets from…
“A Perfect Shabbos Table”–It’s Not What You Expect
Do your dreams get crushed every Friday night when the Shabbos table fails to be the place of your dreams? This post was a conversation between the five of us on the topic of: the Shabbos table. Tables Have Stages “I remember, when my children were a bit younger, after a day of shopping and…
Shabbos & Money
Food has become more extravagant than ever–at the same time, it’s also more expensive than ever and budgets are stretched. So, there’s the question: is there such a thing as too much to spend on Shabbos? There’s a story in At Any Hour, the biography of Rav Shlomo Gissinger (p. 267): The Steinbergs* had just…
Tips & Tricks to Help You Make an Early Shabbos
This is a roundup of different tips and tools we shared with you over the years that can help you be ready for Shabbos early. It’s not about how early you wake up. It’s about how prepared you are from the beginning of the week.
What Do You Do Special for Shabbos?
Aside from preparing special meals (whether they’re traditional or not so much), there are different things that we all do that create an atmosphere of oneg Shabbos. And everyone does different things to increase our families enjoyment and anticipation. We compiled some comments from ourselves, our friends, and family. Also: A lot of Shabbos-related treats…
Get the Whole Family Helping With Shabbos Preparation
Don’t do it all yourself: even the little ones can be pitching in to prepare for Shabbos. Getting ready for Shabbos is part of the routine of every single week. So why do our kids seem surprised every time we ask them to do a task before Shabbos?? It’s time to assign specific tasks to…
