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In this gentle, cheerful exploration of the Jewish weekly holiday of Shabbat, readers are encouraged to take a break: “On Friday night, Shabbat begins, and we pause the doing to enjoy just being.” Ultman walks readers through Shabbat’s elements in spare prose paired with amusing and surprising anthropomorphic images, including a behatted strawberry seated at the dinner table and smiling Shabbat candlesticks and dishes.
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