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It's three weeks since The Shabbos Project, and emails and calls still keep coming in of uplifting and our stories and I would like to share some of them with you.



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May Hashem continue to bless us all with the gift of Shabbos,



Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein unique Shabbos Project memories. These areand I would like to share some of them with you.You can find many more onand theMay Hashem continue to bless us all with the gift of Shabbos,Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein Kim Tobias

Firstly we want to thank you for this initiative. It set off a community spirit as good as the World Cup Rugby or the Soccer World Cup mania. But a lot more spiritual and a lot more meaningful to the soul. We have never kept Shabbos before, and it all sounded quite daunting but we wanted to take on a challenge of this nature and try encourage whoever we could to come along for the ride.

Read more Anonymous

38 years ago, when I was 7 years old, my father passed away. Before he was niftar, my older sister and I used to walk to shul with him every Shabbos. We had Shabbos candles burning. We had Pesach.



Read more After his passing, this all ceased. Many years later my mother went on to marrying a non jew. Baruch Hashem I have a beautiful shomrei mitzos home, but my sister and mother moved on to an eastern philosophy. Lisa Mervis

The minute I heard the community would be keeping Shabbos together on a particular week, I became excited and committed to the program.

I informed my three amazing kids that the four of us would be keeping Shabbos on that particular date , but that I was sure my husband would never take off work, since we all know that he can never attend anything on a Saturday

Read more Tanya Matisonn

I spent my December at a beautiful family wedding in Israel. We stayed in the old city with the most magnificent views. I had snapped away with my camera of my 3 kids interacting with all my first cousins kids and of the touring. They were really special photos. We then flew through London for a few days and I left my camera with all my pics from my whole trip in a cab. I cried for days, weeks. How can you replace the photos of my kids putting their first notes into the wall of the kotel?

Read more Jonathan Novick

In the eight years since my Dad's death, his Yortzeit falls in the week that we read Lech Lecha. At the end of the Shiva week 8 years ago, Rabbi Goldman walked us out of shiva. As is customary, he firmly told us to leave the shiva place, to move forward and referring to the week's Parsha, he instructed us to follow Abraham's lead and "Lech Lecha". He articulated his idea brilliantly and it remained with me ever since. That was the darkest and saddest time of my life. Lech Lecha always evokes vivid memories of that time.

Read more Tamryn Scheepers

I work at King David Linksfield Primary School, as an Afrikaans and sports teacher. I would like to share my experience of keeping Shabbos this weekend, what a wonderful initiative you created across the nation.

I am a Christian but have recently learned more about my family history.My grandmother is French and was born during World War 2 near Calais in the northern area of France. Read more