If your congregation is already using the Shabbat Initiative, this is the page to bookmark. Read sermons, get ideas for programs to help you introduce the Initiative, and discuss ideas with other congregations. Read the results of our first survey of Shabbat Initiative users to get an overview of what other congregations are doing.

Excerpted from Rabbi Yoffie's Biennial sermon,
December 15, 2007
"There is a magical quality to Shabbat at Biennial. When we ask our delegates what was their most powerful experience during their five days here, the great majority say “Shabbat.” We treasure these twenty-four hours together, because, for once, we celebrate Shabbat as it is meant to be—a respite from errand running and clattering commerce, a day when we pay attention to the holy and the pull of Jewish time."

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