| Though my family has never been particularly religious, we go to the synagogue on holidays and observe Shabbat, and eat kosher. |
| If 5 Iyyar falls on Friday or Shabbat, the celebrations are held on Thursday, so as to avoid a desecration of Shabbat Lag ba-Omer. |
| Yet they're estranged from their parents, who call during a Shabbat dinner only because their rabbi advised them to. |
| During one of the regular Talmud games on Shabbat, Reb Saunders becomes irate when Danny's participation is less than fiercely enthusiastic. |
| Mr. Malter joyfully picks up his son from the hospital in time for a homecoming Shabbat. |
| They see each other almost every day and on the first Shabbat that Reuven is discharged from the hospital, he visits Danny at his house and shul. |
