"The truth is we can talk about the joys and meaning of observing Shabbat until we're blue in the face and it won't really make much difference. It's like trying to describe the taste of chocolate to someone who has never eaten chocolate. Or in Jewish terms: na'aseh v'nishmah - we will do and [then] we will understand. Shabbat has to be experienced in order to be understood. Shabbat is not an intellectual pursuit; hence the challenge for us who are inheritors of a great intellectual Jewish heritage."

- Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman
Director, URJ Department of Worship, Music, & Religious Living