and because Karen still practice the Livitical law in the Old Testament about eating only biblically kosher foods, this is what I brought. In traditional Jewish homes, Shabbat (7th day) starts on Friday at sundown and ends Saturday at sundown. Orthodox Jews don't work or labor during this time, but Jesus corrected them because they took it to where they won't even lift a finger to help, if someone needs help on the Sabbath. (Matthew 12:9-12)
The bread and wine. When Jesus had meals with His disciples, they drank from the same cup and broke bread together. Literally, this challah bread is not sliced, you break a piece from either end. (I love challah bread but I just can't deal with the drinking from the same cup)
This is Karen, she lights the candle and prays the Shabbat prayer. The wife (or a woman) has to light the candle. A non-Messianic Jew does this out of tradition, but a Messianic Jew understands that Jesus, the light of the world came from a woman. Normally, a woman does not wear this Tallit (prayer shawl) but Karen uses it and we use this at the end of the prayer to symbolically cover the kids with prayers of blessings. 
I love this bible study group because Raoul, our teacher, teaches the bible with a Jewish perspective and it really makes the bible come alive because he makes us study the bible historically, spiritually and.... context, context, context. (Take a verse out of context and you can prove anything and misled people). Needless to say, it was a filling night- spiritually and gastronomically.
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