Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
For 25 hours each week, Jews are required to put aside all work related objects and activities. They are to abstain from activating any form of technological machinery, such as cars, televisions, computers, and phones. In fact, all devices that assist Jews in reaching out of themselves into the outer world and impacting it are off limits.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
As theologian Walter Brueggeman writes on rest and sabbath—it’s a “pause that transforms.” Rest— of people, of land, of resources— is always linked to flourishing, not scarcity. Practiced in times of plenty and proven in times of crisis.
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We can’t always be spiritual. God has given us a material world with which to engage. But on the seventh day of the week, and (originally) seven days in the year, God gives us dedicated time in which we feel the closeness of the Shekhina and are bathed in the radiance of God’s love.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
Shabbat is a sacred space, a time full of no-thing, no activity, no creative work. A time when according to the Torah we must shavat vayinafash—stop and re-ensoul ourselves, stop and breathe again, stop and allow ourselves to fill up with the great wind of the Ain Sof once more.