Sabbath rest is, of course, a commandment, right up there with “Thou shalt not kill.” It must be important, right? In Deuteronomy 5, the Sabbath commandment says, “Keep the Sabbath day and ...

Sabbath finds its meaning in the generative and liberative power of God. Perhaps this is why the command of Exodus 20:8 is to “remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy.” ...

It was a day of peace, a day of rest, a day of, whether intentionally or not, Sabbath. Part of this weekly slowdown was enshrined in law. Up until the mid-1990s, buying and selling on Sunday was ...

Sabbath rest is like an intentional resetting of our internal hardware, to remind ourselves that we are not meant to work work work, do do do, produce produce produce.

Sabbath and the Art of Rest Judith Shulevitz shares the wisdom of the Sabbath and its offering to a modern world that struggles to unplug. 2023-01-03T05:00:15-05:00 [MUSIC PLAYING] ...

“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to ...

In an 1863 address to the National Sabbath Convention, Schaff argued that “Sabbath rest” is necessary for both body and soul; that it preserves “health, wealth and the temporal happiness and ...

In addition to the weekly, personal Sabbath instituted at creation by God, the Israelites were to recognize a Sabbath rest for the Earth. Every seven years, according to Exodus 23, ...

Lieberman, who died last week at 82, recounted this story in his 2011 book, “The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath.” “For me,” he wrote, “Sabbath observance is one of ...

Rest is such a necessary and vital part of being human, and yet so many of us find ourselves hustling through life at a chaotic and blistering pace, simply trying to make ends meet and check all ...