At OneTable, we invite you to hold tradition in one hand and your beliefs, experiences, and passions in the other. Every week, Shabbat dinner and ritual offers a chance to be present and connect with yourself and others.

Shabbat, much like yoga or meditation for some, is an act of rebellion against a constantly moving world. We bring ritual to the table not because we have to, but because disconnecting in order to intentionally connect, separate from the work week, and build community is holy – and really good for you.

This guide was created to help deepen your Shabbat practice with new teachings, movement meditations, and ways of looking at Jewish ritual as a gift from our ancestors to mindfully pause, reflect, celebrate and nourish yourself and your community each and every week.

After a long week of work, a great practice to transition into Shabbat is to reflect on what we’re grateful for from the week past. It’s a way to honor the week, close that chapter, and enter into a new one: Shabbat.

The guides in this series invite you to explore the question “Why Be Jewish?” in three different contexts: In a Time of Crisis, A Personal Response, and A Communal Response. There will be as many answers as there are guests, and that’s exactly as it should be.

Whether Friday night is a time to engage in powerful conversation, or a time to take a break from the work of change-making, this is just the one of many ways we can amplify Black voices at our tables and prepare ourselves for the work — and the world — to come.

Meditate your way into the #FridayNightMagic of Shabbat dinner. Use this guide to center your mind, breath, and focus into Shabbat’s ancient rituals of wellness.

OneTable’s Guía de cena de Shabat: Edición Latina! Share Shabbat ritual, songs, stories, questions, and recipes in both English and Español around your Shabbat table.

November is Mizrahi Heritage Month! Use this supplement to plan, frame, and cook for a special meal elevating the cultures and traditions of Middle Eastern + North African Jewish communities.

This resource was created in partnership with Eli Gale & Ren Weinstock to help create intentional spaces for both queerness and Jewishness to come together over the rituals of Shabbat.

OneTable and JQ International bring you this Pride Shabbat guide centered on the Jewish value of V’ahavta L’reacha Kamocha: love your neighbor as yourself. Take a pause for Shabbat dinner, relax your body and mind, and celebrate the resilient, sparkling, joyful queer community.

This is an invitation to turn Shabbat into a time and the dinner table is a place to engage in powerful conversation, to connect with others, and to create a community of caring and inclusivity. Your outreach, your dinner table, and your kindness may impact someone more than you know.

Every week Shabbat dinner offers a chance to take a break and be fully present. May we know peace even if we stumble, and may we find the light even amid the darkness.

ADL, Repair the World, and OneTable, in partnership with Be’Chol Lashon and Keshet, prepared this guide for your Shabbat dinner table in honor of those we’ve lost in the face of hate.

The Shabbat dinner table is an ideal place for conversations about death, an invitation to use the end of the creation cycle and the end of the week as a setting to embrace the end of life.

Celebrating Shabbat is about ending the week with intention and prioritizing your most important interpersonal connections. This resource is designed to guide you and your partner through Shabbat rituals and give you reflections and readings that we hope inspire you to check in with one another, celebrate your commitment, and share gratitude.

The Shabbat table has always been a place where Jewish people have experimented and codified “Jewish food” — food that tells the story of what it means to be a part of this community. Now, we turn to our own Shabbat table as a place to elevate our own stories, prompted and inspired by dishes we feel connected to.

While it may not seem intuitive to connect tzedakah and Shabbat, the idea of tzedakah —that the Jewish people are commanded to behave righteously — is intrinsically linked to the practice of Shabbat, stopping on the seventh day.

“Though camp rules and mentality might not be possible all year round, it was at least waiting for us to return to its sweet playfulness and joy whenever we were ready. This is what Heschel meant when he called the Sabbath a palace in time…There’s no need for a physical temple or a church, or even a beautiful forest. That is the beauty of sacred time: it stretches across all places and is accessible to us, wherever we are.” -Casper ter Kuile, The Power of Ritual

Friday night is an invitation to elevate time and encounter joy. This guide can help you do that while alone, together.

Whether you are celebrating on your own, virtually with others online, or in person, we hope these resources connect you to the experience of Shabbat in a way that is new and — perhaps surprisingly — sacred.

May this intergenerational experience be an opportunity to welcome the wisdom of our elders, inspire the energy of our youth, and learn from one another with joy and openness as we celebrate Shabbat.

This is not a Haggadah, but rather a real time supplement that offers first person introductions — poetry, lyrics, mindful reflections — for you to read before each section of the Seder. Choose the Haggadah that works for you, and use this resource to add meaning, set personal intention, and make your Seder a testament to the timeliness and power of ritual.

This guide is an invitation to infuse your Shabbat with the magic and mystery of Passover. With light, wine, and matzah, we honor where we have come from, share where we are, and imagine a better future.

While Rosh Hashanah Seders are more typically celebrated in Sephardi and Mizrahi homes, more Jews from around the world are starting to incorporate this practice into their New Year celebrations. This year, we want to invite folks preparing a Rosh Hashanah Seder to do so Latinx style.

Falling between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return, ushers in a unique weekend, an incredible opportunity to reflect on the year that was and welcome the year to come. We hope that this guide helps you and your guests imbue Shabbat Shuvah with intention and give the Friday night rituals an extra layer of meaning by incorporating the themes that make the High Holidays so sacred.

OneTable x Mitsui Collective | As we prepare to bring in Shabbat — the proverbial “Temple in Time” — within the holiday of Sukkot, we honor all of the ways in which we have had to create impermanent shelters that have enabled us to weather the wilderness of the pandemic. Let us celebrate ourselves and each other — whether you have a physical Sukkah in your yard, patio, or balcony; or your Sukkah exists only in the metaphysical realm of your imagination, we celebrate the creation of sacred space and time and the opportunity to dwell within its midst.

In Hebrew, Shemini Atzeret literally means the Eighth (Shemini) day of Assembly (Atzeret) — an eighth day of gathering and celebration that follows Sukkot. Both connected to Sukkot and a distinct holiday of its own, Shemini Atzeret exists to elevate the spiritual aspects of this seven day festival, among them our connection to the natural world.

While in the United States we have an annual refrain of gratitude, in Jewish tradition, we have a weekly opportunity: Shabbat. This year, we hope you’ll gather the people who mean the most to you and celebrate Friendsgiving, an evening of gratitude not only for what you have, but who you have to share it with.

It’s no coincidence that Hanukkah, or chag urim, the “festival of lights” in Hebrew, falls every year on or near the winter solstice. Most faiths that originated in the ancient Near East, including Christianity, embedded within their religious calendars a practice to create warmth and light at the darkest time of the year.