# Shabbat

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Categories: `Shabbat`

Exported: 2025-12-30

Shabbat is the seventh day of the week on which Jews rest from creative activities.

## Mitzvot of the Day

* Blessing for new moon (Birkat Halevana/Kiddush Levana)
* Enjoying Shabbat (Oneg Shabbat)
* Fourth meal of Shabbat (Melaveh Malka)
* Havdalah (Sanctifying the conclusion of Shabbat)
* Having a meal on Friday (Having a meal on Erev Shabbat)
* In the Spirit of Shabbat (Uvda Dchol)
* Kiddush (Sanctifying Shabbat)
* Lighting Shabbat candles
* Making early Shabbat (Tosefet Shabbat)
* Making one hundred Brachot on Shabbat
* Preparing foods on Shabbat
* Preparing for Shabbat (Erev Shabbat)
* Reading the weekly Torah portion (Shenayim Mikrah)
* Respecting Shabbat (Kavod Shabbat)
* Shabbat prayers (Shabbos Davening)
* The meals of Shabbat (Seudat Shabbat)
* Third meal of Shabbat (Seudat Shelishit)
* Two loaves of bread (Lechem Mishneh)
* When does Shabbat end? (Motzei Shabbat)
* When does Shabbat start?

## Practical Laws of Shabbat

* Allowing Carrying Using an Eruv Chatzerot
* Animals on Shabbat
* Asking a Jew to work on Shabbat
* Asking a non-Jew to work on Shabbat (Amirah LeNochri)
* Benefiting from a Violation of Shabbat (Maaseh Shabbat)
* Books, notebooks, and papers
* Brushing Teeth on Shabbat
* Building a structure on Shabbat (Boneh)
* Carrying on Shabbat
* Cleaning the dishes
* Cleaning and Folding Garments on Shabbat
* Clearing the table
* Cooking (Ofeh and Bishul)
* Cosmetics on Shabbat
* Dancing and clapping on Shabbat
* Electricity on Shabbat
* Eruv Chatzerot
* Eruvin
* Games on Shabbat
* Getting dressed on Shabbat
* Giving birth on Shabbat

## Practical Laws of Shabbat

* Grinding (Tochen)
* Handling objects on Shabbat (Muktzeh)
* Infants on Shabbat
* Introduction to the Modern Eruv
* Kneading (Lash)
* Mail on Shabbat
* Medicine on Shabbat (Refuah on Shabbat)
* Melacha That Begins Before Shabbat
* Opening bottles and containers (Boneh)
* Plants on Shabbat (Zoreah)
* Preparing for after Shabbat (Hachana)
* Reading on Shabbat (Daber Davar)
* Recreation on Shabbat
* Sechirut Reshut
* Separating mixtures (Borer)
* Squeezing fruits (Sechita)
* Speaking on Shabbat (Daber Davar)
* Taking a cruise over Shabbat
* Taking measurements on Shabbat
* Techum
* Transactions on Shabbat
* Transportation on Shabbat
* Going to and Staying in the Hospital on Shabbat
* Wages on Shabbat (Sachar Shabbat)
* Washing one’s body on Shabbat

## 39 Melachot

Introduction to Melechet Machshevet

Marbeh Bshiurim
*Order of making bread*
* Choresh (Plowing)
* Zoreah (Planting)
* Kotzer (Harvesting)
* Me'amer (Gathering)
* Dosh (Threshing)
* Zoreh (Winnowing)
* Borer (Separating)
* Tochen(Grinding)
* Merakaid (Sifting)
* Lash (Kneading)
* Ofeh and Bishul (Baking and Cooking)

*Order of making garments*
* Gozez (Shearing)
* Melabain (Laundering)
* Menapaitz (Combing)
* Tzoveya (Dyeing)
* Toveh (Spinning)
* Maisach (Mounting warp threads)
* Oseh Shtei Batei Nirin (Making two loops)
* Oraig (Weaving)
* Potzeya (Unraveling fabric)

*Order of making garments cont.*
* Koshair (Tying)
* Matir (Untying)
* Tofer (Gluing, taping, or stapling)
* Koreah (Ripping)

*Order of making hides*
* Tzad (Trapping)
* Shochet (Slaughtering)
* Mafshit (Skinning)
* Maabaid (Tanning)
* Memachaik (Smoothing)
* Mesartait (Scoring)
* Mechataich (Cutting precisely)

*Order of construction*
* Kotaiv (Writing)
* Mochek (Erasing)
* Boneh (Building)
* Sosair (Demolishing)
* Makeh BePatish (Completing a vessel)
* Mechabeh (Extinguishing a flame)
* Mavir (Kindling a fire)
* Hotzah (Carrying)

* [Guide to the 39 Melachos and Selected Halachos](http://www.halachipedia.com/documents/5774/Shabbos_Packet.pdf)