Shabbat
Source: Halachipedia: 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)