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GOOD SHABBAT |
On this page we will over time add more and more passages and information regarding the special stature of the Sabbath. Please check back every once and a while to read the new ones. Entered on the 10th of March - 2002: "The six days of creation are reminders of things that are transient and subject to motion, whereas the Sabbath reminds us of rest, conclusion of work, so it is also a veiled hint of man's life as such. He moves and strives towards those activities that lead him towards his true purpose. The Sabbath then is a symbol of man's true destiny and purpose." Entered on the 28th of April - 2002: "Right from the beginning the Sabbath makes its appearance as the day of liberation which triumphs over fate. On the seventh day G-d ordered the creative forces to stop. "These forces were in full swing and would have continued to produce had not G-d revealed Himself and stopped them with His supreme command: "Enough" (Bereishis Rabah 10). For if one holds, as do the materialists, that the world owes its existence to its own natural forces, how can one explain why these forces no longer act and no longer create: Why do the same causes no longer have the same effects? Who has placed a limit on their activity? Why has no new creation come about within living memory, and yet Sabbath does exist. This proves that a free creative force, conscious of itself and all-powerful, preceded this Sabbath. The universe in its totality is not the purely physical result of natural forces acting blindly and out of necessity. It is rather the work, of a moral nature and order, emanating from a Creator who acts in the infinite plentitude of His wisdom, following a precise plan and by means of His free and omnipotent will. The fruit of the seventh day, rest, gives the work of the six preceding days all its value and its dignity. Thus the Sabbath conquers the servitude to which work inevitably leads. By giving mankind the gift of Shabbat, G-d raised us to the level of freedom, dignity, and equality for all. The Sabbath ennobles work, and crowns rest with glory. It establishes the realm of human dignity. The Sabbath, created just at the completion of creation, thus confers a moral character on all creation. It is consequently a holiday not just for nature but also for humanity." |
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