Sabbath

Every week from eighteen minutes before sunset Friday until the first three stars appear Saturday evening

The Sabbath is the choicest fruit and flower of the week, the Queen whose coming changes the humblest home into a palace.

—JUDAH HA-LEVI, KUZARI

It was the darkness and emptiness of the streets I liked most about Friday evening, as if in preparation for that day of rest and worship which the Jews greet “as a bride.”... I waited for the streets to go dark on Friday evening as other children waited for Christmas lights.

—ALFRED KAZIN, A WALKER IN THE CITY