Moshe Mykoff is a writer and translator living in Jerusalem. He has published more than a dozen works, including his best-selling adaptations of Rebbe Nachman's maxims on spiritual growth, The Empty Chair: Finding Hope and Joy and The Gentle Weapon: Prayers for Everyday and Not-So-Everyday Moments (both Jewish Lights), and his translation of seven volumes of Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus, Likutey Moharan (Breslov Research Institute).
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . viii INTRODUCTION . 1 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY IN INTRODUCTION . 10 1. CHARITY AND EXPENSES . 14 2. REVIEWING THE TORAH PORTION . 17 3. TRIMMING THE NAILS . 22 4. BATHING AND IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH . 26 5. SPECIAL CLOTHING . 30 6. SAMPLING THE FOOD . 32 7. READYING THE TABLE . 36 8. PRIVATE, SECLUDED PRAYER . 39 9. SONG OF SONGS . 42 10. PSALM 107 AND THE MINCHAH PRAYER . 46 11. REFRAINING FROM CREATIVE LABOR . 50 SHABBAT: THE NIGHT INTRODUCTION . 56 1. CANDLE LIGHTING . 60 2. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (1) . 64 3. THE KABBALAT SHABBAT PRAYER (2) . 68 4. LEKHA DODI HYMN (1) . 72 5. LEKHA DODI HYMN (2) . 75 6. THE SHABBAT PSALM . 78 7.THE MAARIV PRAYER . 82 8. SHALOM ALEIKHEM . 88 9. THE FRAGRANCE OF MYRTLES . 92 10.THE KIDDUSH . 95 11. LECHEM MISHNEH-DOUBLE LOAVES . 100 12. THE FIRST MEAL . 104 13. ZEMIROT-SONGS . 108 14. MARITAL RELATIONS . 112 15. SLEEP . 114 SHABBAT: THE MORNING INTRODUCTION . 118 1. IMMERSING IN A MIKVAH . 122 2.THE SHACHARIT PRAYER . 126 3. READING THE TORAH PORTION . 129 4. READING THE HAFTARAH . 132 5. THE MUSAF PRAYER . 135 6.THE KEDUSHAH DECLARATION . 138 7.THE SECOND MEAL . 142 SHABBAT: THE AFTERNOON INTRODUCTION . 148 1.THE MINCHAH PRAYER . 154 2. READING FROM THE TORAH . 158 3. THE THIRD MEAL . 160 4. A TORAH LESSON . 164 SHABBAT: ON THE WAY OUT INTRODUCTION . 170 1.THE MAARIV PRAYER . 174 2.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (1) . 178 3.THE HAVDALAH CEREMONY (2) . 182 4. ELIYAHU THE PROPHET . 188 5.THE MELAVEH MALKA MEAL . 192 SOURCES . 197 GLOSSARY . 199 ABOUT THE BRESLOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE . 201 ABOUT JEWISH LIGHTS . 205
