Sabbath and the Art of Rest
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Sabbath and the Art of Rest
On Shabbos, you will not need to run to and fro, neither to find food, nor to dissipate nervous energy by distracting yourself. You may put yourself at ease; you can rest easy! All this is in contrast to the confusion, anxiety, and disorientation of the Israelites’ first experience of the desert.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
Once every week, Shabbos provides an opportunity to rediscover our embodied selves and the blessing of being in one place at one time. Shabbos invites us to commit to our feet and the range that they afford us.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
I’ve always thought that “rest” was a rather misleading shorthand for the purpose of the day because when people hear it, they think of “relaxing,” which isn’t exactly correct. ... Instead, I think of Shabbat as more like exercise: It can feel daunting to carve out time for it, you don’t always instantaneously achieve a meditative flow state, but y... See more
Kelsey Osgood • Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail
we must penetrate to the core of the Shabbat institution. It is not rest per se, in the sense of not making an effort, physically or mentally. It is rest in the sense of the re-establishment of complete harmony between human beings and between them and nature. Nothing must be destroyed and nothing be built: the Shabbat is a day of truce in the huma
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