Celebrating Shabbat: How to do the traditional ceremonies

• Blessings for Friday evening: candles, wine, and challah;
  Use this link to find the Friday evening table prayers. The blessings are presented in Hebrew, English, and with transliteration so that you can use them whether you do or don’t know Hebrew. We’ve taken this material from a book called Gates of Shabbat, published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and written by Rabbi Shapiro.
• Music for the Friday evening blessings at home
• The Music of Our Shabbat Services

Celebrating Shabbat: Creative ways to make Friday/Saturday different

• Take Back Your Time: Rediscover Shabbat - a booklet with 52 ways to rediscover Shabbat and ten additional ways to rediscover Shabbat at Sinai Temple.
• Next Friday Night: Shabbat is never more than seven days away
  Rabbi Shapiro began to discuss Shabbat with our congregation on Kol Nidre 2007. This link will take you to the Rabbi's sermon.

• Take Back Your Time: Rediscover Shabbat
  Rabbi Shapiro's Yom Kippur Morning Sermon on Shabbat
• A Norman Rockwell Shabbat from the URJ Ten Minutes of Torah, June 18, 2012
• It’s possible to taste Shabbat in many ways. Here are more creative and unusual ways to consider the possibilities of the seventh day. 
• What Does "Unplugging for Shabbat" Really Mean? Ellen Zimmerman, creator of the Jewish Holidays In a Box website, gives her thoughts.
• Unplugging for Shabbat. Rabbi Shapiro offered the congregation this Chanukah “gift” in the form of a message on Shabbat.
• A mother with small children and an empty nester dad dialogue about their search for Shabbat
  If you wonder about your own philosophy of Shabbat or if you wonder how Shabbat might ever fit into your own life, you will find this dialogue absolutely fascinating! The Union for Reform Judaism published this four-part exchange on living in our busy modern world in the Spring of 2008. You will find the conversation between Michelle Abraham and Jim Ball enlightening and moving.
• Our congregants have responded to our Rediscover Shabbat efforts with reflections on their own experiences. These letters have previously been published in the Sinai Bulletin.
• Aspiring to Shabbat A New Book For Shabbat.

Take Back Your Time: Reflections and Poetry on reclaiming balance and peace

• The Joy of Quiet by Pico Iyer
• Saying YES to Shabbat and Ourselves A Reflection by Rabbi Marci N. Bellows
• Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
• The Sacred Act of Unplugging: For Our Kids, For Ourselves by Tanya Schevitz

From an Interfaith Perspective

• First Things First: Shabbat
• Oasis in Time
• Homeward Bound
• Knead a Little Spirituality

From Around the Web

• My Jewish Learning
This website provides information on all aspects of Jewish living. This link will take you to a comprehensive conversation about Shabbat in the 21st century.
• Ideas from around the world of Reform Judaism
  Our national umbrella organization, the Union for Reform Judaism, has developed a "Shabbat initiative." You can follow this link to see how Reform Jews across the country are approaching Shabbat.