Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel likens the Sabbath to a ‘palace in time.’

Please. Anna. Much more than simply a polite way to open a request, the Hebrew word for please, anna, appears only twice throughout the entire Torah.

The 14th century Rabbi, Yaakov ben Asher, codified Jewish law in a compendium called the Tur (short for Arba Turim, the ‘four columns’) which became the basis for the subsequent authoritative code of Jewish law known as the Shulchan Aruch.