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Gifts from Jerusalem - handcrafted in Israel. The candlesticks are used to enlight the Shabbath candles. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest and falls on the seventh day of every week. Observing Shabbat is the fourth of the Ten Commandments: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, not thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Remembering, observing and taking pleasure the Shabbat is a commandment; hence, sorrow and distress should be avoided on the one hand and, on the other, no labor should be carried out during the Shabbat. The Bible speaks of lighting fire and going beyond the limits of the settlement. The Mishna expands and elaborates the labors forbidden on the Shabbat into thirty-nine different types, called the Labor Principles. The Labor Principles are labors that were performed during the building of the Tabernacle and were therefore forbidden on the Shabbat. Furthermore, preparing all manner of necessities on the Shabbat for a regular weekday is forbidden, in order to preserve the special status of the Shabbat. Shabbath Candlesticks from Israel Shabbat is not only a day of rest, but also a day of holiness and grace, as it is said: And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it And indeed, neshamah yeterah (an ‘additional soul’), grace and sanctity should be added to the physical rest, to make this day markedly distinct from every other day of the week. The Romans and Greeks derided the Jews over their Sabbath and maintained that they were a lazy people. The first century Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus asserted that “Their (the Jews’) hearts were seduced by laziness and they assigned to laziness the seventh year (fallow year) as well”. When Jewish philosophers attempted to explain the value of the Shabbat they claimed that the purpose of this day was to gather strength for the days of hard labor. However, it can be stated with some certainty that in Jewish philosophy the Shabbat is not a means but an end in itself, the acme of the Jewish experience. One of the greatest Zionist philosophers, Ahad Ha’am, said: “More than Israel has kept the Shabbat, the Shabbat has kept Israel”. And indeed, during all the hardships they endured in the Diaspora, the Jews continued to observe the Shabbat and the Holy Days.