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Take a Day Off: How Shabbos Forced Me to Turn Off, Have Family Time and Get a Fresh Start Each Week

By Zalmi Duchman — 2015

When I launched my company, The Fresh Diet , in 2005, I had a unique problem to solve: my business required my attention seven days per week, but my religion required me to take a day of rest.

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Finding the Off Switch: Four Reasons I Observe Shabbat

With the pace of technology and its demand for our attention increasing month-to-month, comes the challenge of occasionally leaving it behind. I’ve found some answers in my over thirty-year observance of Shabbat, (the Jewish Sabbath), a time when the use of technology is prohibited.

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Peter Himmelman
2018
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The Sabbath in an Era of Climate Change

An ancient Jewish practice may help save us all.

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Jonathan Schorsch
2020
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The Science of Sabbath: How People Are Rediscovering Rest—And Claiming Its Benefits

People of different faiths are rediscovering the practice of Sabbath, and some point to science suggesting such a day of rest — including time away from social media and digital devices — benefits longevity and mental health.

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Emily McFarlan Miller
2019
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Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise

There are people for whom the Sabbath never went away. Seventh-day Adventists, Hutterites, Jews whose fathers and mothers never stopped walking in the ways of their fathers and mothers. And then there are the rest of us.

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Judith Shulevitz
2010
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Bring Bath the Sabbath

My normal routine, which involved brunch with friends and swapping tales of misadventure in the relentless quest for romance and professional success, made me feel impossibly restless. I started spending Saturdays by myself.

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Judith Shulevitz
2003
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