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If you read Abraham Heschel's book The Sabbath you will find that he alludes to a beautiful idea...
We are beings that are confined to space and time. We have built HaShema palaceon Earth, or 'in space'... the temple. However, he longs to find a place to reside in time as well, thus he set aside the Sabbath.
I wanted to expand on this idea a bit.
Ever since I was young I wondered "Why did G-d need to rest?" Was he not all powerful? Why would he need a rest?
Sure, I heard all the excuses/explanations the teachers had to offer, but I was never satisfied. It never made senst to me.
Until...
One day I was reading through Isaiah. I cam across a passage...
Isaiah 66
HaShem asks, "Where will my resting place be?"
In "one who's spirit is contrite"!!!!
He longs to make/find his rest in US! He will find rest... or find his shabbat... in those who are contrite in spirit and humble.
Later I found this passage over in Isaia 57:15
Shalom,
Yafet.
We are beings that are confined to space and time. We have built HaShema palaceon Earth, or 'in space'... the temple. However, he longs to find a place to reside in time as well, thus he set aside the Sabbath.
I wanted to expand on this idea a bit.
Ever since I was young I wondered "Why did G-d need to rest?" Was he not all powerful? Why would he need a rest?
Sure, I heard all the excuses/explanations the teachers had to offer, but I was never satisfied. It never made senst to me.
Until...
One day I was reading through Isaiah. I cam across a passage...
Isaiah 66
BINGO!1 This is what the L-RD says:
"Heaven is my throne,
and the Earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
2 Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?
This is the one I esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my Torah.
HaShem asks, "Where will my resting place be?"
In "one who's spirit is contrite"!!!!
He longs to make/find his rest in US! He will find rest... or find his shabbat... in those who are contrite in spirit and humble.
Later I found this passage over in Isaia 57:15
His love for us is so powerful that he longs to make us his dwelling place. When we honor Shabbat, we are honoring his desire to find rest/sabbath within us!For this is what the high and lofty One says-
he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
"I live in a high and lofty place
but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit."
Shalom,
Yafet.