1. Weaving Shabbat Debi Swedelson Mishael NewCAJE 7 Naperville, IL
August 2016 / תַמּוּז תשע״ו

2. Workshop Outline Welcome and Introduction What is “Weaving Shabbat”
Mock Classroom Lesson
Let’s Weave

3. Debi Swedelson Mishael
MAEd. University of Judaism
36+ Years as a Jewish Educator
Religious School Director
Preschool Director
Camp Director
Artist
Stained Glass & Fused Glass
Quilting & Sewing
Weaving
Papercrafting

4. Lesson Goal
Introduce students to the traditional 39 categories of work prohibited on Shabbat.
Challenge students to create modern categories of work that reflect their lives and engage them in a dialogue about increasing their own observance of Shabbat by disengaging from one or more of those activities.

5. Definitions

6. Torah Quotes
Heaven and earth, and all their components, were completed. With the seventh day, God finished all the work (melakha) that He had done. He ceased on the seventh day from all the work (melakha) that he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day, and he declared it to be holy, for it was on this day that God ceased from all the work (melakha) that he had been creating to function.
Genesis 2:1-3
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Verily ye shall keep My sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the LORD who sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you; ... Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; ... Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested
Exodus 31:12-17

7. Sowing
Plowing
Reaping
Binding sheaves
Threshing
Winnowing
Selecting
Grinding
Sifting
Kneading
Baking
Field Work
Trapping
Slaughtering
Skinning
Salting
Tracing
Smoothing
Cutting
Making Leather Curtains
Building
Demolishing
Making Beams (of the Mishkan)
Writing two letters
Erasing two letters
Putting Up and Taking Down the Mishkan
Extinguishing
Kindling
Striking final blow
Transfering
Making the Beams (of the Mishkan)
There are 39 general categories of labor that are forbidden on Shabbat. The melachot are generally divided into six groups, classified according to the Mishkan's activities with which they are associated.
39 zek`ln
Shearing
Washing
Detangling
Dyeing
Spinning
Warping
Wefting
Weaving
Unweaving
Tying
Untying
Sewing
Tearing
Making Material Curtains (Weaving)

8. Weaving

10. Weaving on a Cardboard Loom