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Why are there two different versions of the Decalogue?
Why are there two different versions of the Shabbat commandment in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5? In Exodus 20 the Shabbat recalls the cosmogony in six days, but in Deuteronomy 5 the Shabbat ...
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Odd flow in shacharis of Shabas [duplicate]
The central benediction of the morning amida prayer on the sabbath reads as follows (in loose translation):
Moses… stood before You on Mt. Sinai. He brought down [from the mountain], by hand, two ...
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Is a hired non-Jewish maid prohibited to work on Shabbat?
I am trying to understand what is meant by Devarim 5:14. It says that your slave may not perform any melacha so that they "may rest as you do".
Does this mean that if someone has a full-time live-in ...
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Why don't we have to work every non-Shabbos day?
We are told multiple times in the Torah
ששת ימים תעבוד
Six days you should work.
But many people do not actually work 6 days a week. For example, in the United States, Sunday is considered a weekend ...
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How were זכור and שמור said together?
In the Mishnah Berurah (271:3), it says that the word זכור from "זכור את יום השבת לקדשו" of the first Aseres Hadibros, and the word שמור from "שמור את יום השבת לקדשו" of the second Aseres Hadibros ...
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