IT IS WRITTEN
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
Genesis 2:3
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
Genesis 2:3
The Sabbath 1
The Sabbath is like a magnet. If you can grow inside you even a small nugget of desire for the Sabbath, as evening draws near on a Friday you will be dragged ever more strongly into the force field of the Sabbath magnet. And at dark you will slap right up against it, and be well and truly stuck. What bliss! 'When Rabbi Elimelekh said the Prayer of Sanctification on the Sabbath, he occasionally took out his watch and looked at it. For in that hour, his soul threatened to dissolve in bliss, and so he looked at his watch in order to steady himself in Time and the world.’ - From Martin Buber's Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters. The Sabbath 2 It is written that God blessed the seventh day. When we open the door to the Sabbath and enter in, we are covered by that blessing. The Sabbath 3 The Sabbath is not only the door to eternal delight, it is a law that governs the structure of time and how we experience it. As the proportion of Sabbath keepers in the world's population shrinks, the more we experience time as speeding up. |