Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Sabbath Rest

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work  Gen 2:2

He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of man.  Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul.  The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone else.


-A Heschel "The Sabbath"

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