Jews around the world will unite in Sabbath observance as part of the One Shabbat One World campaign beginning this year with sundown on Friday, Jan. 14. Launched seven years ago to promote awareness of Jewish teachings on the final redemption, the campaign features special events at hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch centers around the world.

Rabbi Joseph Eisenbach, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Northwest Connecticut, told his local newspaper yesterday that the goal is to highlight the benefits of living spiritually in a physical world.

“We believe strongly in the ripple effect, a sort of spiritual chaos theory, when it comes to changing the world into the better place it can and should be,” the rabbi told the Litchfield County Times.

“When the Jewish person observes the Shabbat, he or she creates a stable home, an anchor of absolute values in today’s chaotic world,” he explained. “A stable home creates stable neighbors, then a stable neighborhood, then a stable city, and ultimately, a stable universe.”

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