Great Shabbat/Sabbath Jewish Quotes Jewish and Israel Oped By Ronn Torossian Ronn Torossian is the Founder & CEO of NY based 5W Public Relations, 1 of the 25 largest PR Agencies in the US. Under his leadership, the PR agency clients have included Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Tropicana, Anheuser-Busch, Barnes & Noble, Cantor Fitzgerald, IHOP, Evian, EDS, VeriSign, XM Radio, Seagram’s, The Loews Regency, Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment, Marriott Hotels, Vail Resorts, Snoop Dogg, the Government of Israel, and others.

1. Great Shabbat/Sabbath Jewish Quotes
Jewish and Israel Oped
By Ronn Torossian
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2. About Ronn Torossian
Ronn Torossian is the Founder & CEO of NY based 5W Public Relations, 1 of
the 25 largest PR Agencies in the US. Under his leadership, the PR agency
clients have included Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Tropicana, Anheuser-
Busch, Barnes & Noble, Cantor Fitzgerald, IHOP, Evian, EDS, VeriSign, XM
Radio, Seagram’s, The Loews Regency, Bad Boy Worldwide
Entertainment, Marriott Hotels, Vail Resorts, Snoop Dogg, the Government of
Israel, and others.
Ronn Torossian was a semi-finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the
Year, named to PR Week’s “40 Under 40″ List and Advertising Age’s “40
Under 40″ list. As CEO of 5WPR, Torossian is regularly featured in national
media, including Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and
elsewhere. His best-selling PR book, “For Immediate Release” is available at
bookstores nationwide.
Ronn Torossian is a member of Young Presidents Organization and active in
numerous non-profit organizations. He resides in Manhattan with his family.
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3. Beautiful quotes about the Sabbath / Shabbat
“In many ways for families and the Jewish people the famous quote of Ahad
Ha’am rings true: “More than the Jews have kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath
has kept the Jews.”

4. Beautiful quotes about the Sabbath / Shabbat
“When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we
live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on
war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable
people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric
lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without
ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are
greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and
moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part
of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.” Wayne
Muller

5. Beautiful quotes about the Sabbath / Shabbat
“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than
space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of
space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in
time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is
eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery
of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the
world.” Rabbi Joshua Heschel

6. Beautiful quotes about the Sabbath / Shabbat
“Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth;
on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the
soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six
days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to
dominate the self.” Rabbi Joshua Heschel

7. Beautiful quotes about the Sabbath / Shabbat
“God, help us now to make this new Shabbat. After noise, we seek quiet;
after crowds of indifferent strangers, we seek to touch those we love … We
break open the gates of the reservoirs of goodness and kindness in
ourselves and others; we reach toward one holy perfect moment of
Shabbat.” Ruth Brin, in the poem “Sabbath Prayer”
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