Let me read to you from Genesis Chapter 2. We have spent a number of weeks looking into Genesis Chapter 1, which gives to us the record of the creation of the world culminating in the pinnacle of that ...

How God’s grace turned my strict views upside down. I grew up in a Sabbatarian religion where we practiced Sabbath observance as a matter of law. My religious community was conscious of the minute ...

"Time management" is a collective fixation of the modern West. And yet, in a broader sense, we give very little thought to the structure and rhythm of our day-to-day lives. The philosopher Charles ...

My friend and his wife were driving in the car talking about how their kids were learning the Ten Commandments at church. They wondered whether or not they too could recite the commandments off the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The concept of the Sabbath began at the beginning of time. God gave his people an example to follow: "On the sixth day God ...

In a column about religion, I should be spending more time teaching about what religions believe. I will try to fix that this year. Q: What, precisely, did God do on the seventh day? I like to rest, ...

When I asked you, dear readers, in a recent column to share with me the ways you honor the Sabbath Day, I was anticipating a flood of responses from orthodox Jewish readers. I was therefore surprised ...

AS the month of August winds down, the rush of life seems to return with full force. Parents are caught in the back-to-school scramble, offices shift back into high gear, and the rhythm of summer ...

Dear Rabbi Gellman: What, precisely, did God do on the seventh day? I like to rest, too, but staring at an empty computer screen all day gets old, at least for me. I am curious. Thank you. — J in Cary ...