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During Friday night prayer services, doors are opened to welcome the Sabbath Queen. What does the Sabbath Queen represent in Judaism?
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Shabbat is compared esoterically to a bride given to us by God, whom we long for her arrival - (source: Talmud Shabbat 119a).
Though some do open the door, the common custom is just turn around toward the door - (source: "Igrot Moshe" by R' M. Feinstein, O.C. III 45; V 16).
With blessings from Jerusalem,Rabbi Shraga Simmons
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