Your Sabbath Invitation focuses on the prophecy in Isaiah 66. “The prophecy is very open,” Nekrutman said. “All humanity is doing something for Shabbat, whatever that form looks like.

Mark Gerson, author of "God Was Right," shares the significance of the seven-day week, its biblical foundation and the importance of balancing work with rest for productivity and well-being.

I bathed in the Sabbath, my new favorite weekly ritual, a 24-hour realm of spiritual bliss through timelessness. I grew up in a Reform Jewish family whose relationship to religion was more social ...

For Orthodox Jews during a yearlong agricultural sabbath, Israel pledged to lift some restrictions on produce from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian farmers in Gaza are wondering what's taking so long.

The Puritan Sabbath, which is another one we think of maybe not so pleasurable, but they found what they were doing to be pleasurable, which is attempting to re-enact a biblical Sabbath. And ...

Sabbath-keeping is not just a small vignette in the Bible. Page after page, story after story, book after book, Sabbath comes to us. This is not a minor motif in the story of the Bible—it is one ...

Young people raised in the Church, many of them once passionate believers, are now publicly questioning or walking away from ...

The biblical Sabbath was a blend of the practical and the spiritual—a labor law for the protection of workers and a symbolic participation in the life of God. In Exodus 20, ...

For the first time, an exception to the prohibition against “carrying” on the day of rest includes most of the borough, allowing, among other things, children to be pushed in strollers.

RNS spoke to Doblmeier about the making of “Sabbath” and how he tried to explore religious as well as secular benefits to the biblical day of rest. The interview was edited for length and clarity.