Sublime

Gott fun Avraham

“Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving-kindness, that we may sing and rejoice all our days”

The melakha ceased not because the task was over, but because the opus was deemed worthy.

One Bielski partisan, Oppenheim, a man in his forties, was a talented locksmith. He came to the forest with his son from Novogródek ghetto.

“God must be praised – no matter where we find ourselves. And if it’s already too late for us here, there are still Jews elsewhere in the world, and they need a good week….”

Mordechai Berkowitz, a blacksmith, established a workshop

Shabbos is embodied spiritual practice.

Melakha is a term of art. Perhaps it should be left untranslated, but if we are to render it in English, I suggest the word “project”

If Jews do not devote themselves to cultivating this heritage of panoramic, all-embracing practice, no one will.