Shabbos not as a day of restrictions, but rather as a time of uninterrupted togetherness.

Psalms 92:3, however, evening becomes the time for faith, for trust that the morning will bring God’s loving-kindness.

Stop involves committing to a locale, settling into place, and completely letting go of the world of work,

Each Shabbos deposits a baseline of preparedness for further growth. Every Shabbos enriches – blesses – the following weekdays, to enable them to be days of preparedness for the Shabbos to come.

Sforno makes clear that Shabbos-consciousness must pervade the entire week, beginning on Sunday.

should avoid af – that is, a state of feeling disgruntled and disaffected, disappointed and frustrated with life, such as the Israelites lapsed into during the wilderness trek, thereby provoking God’s af, anthropomorphically speaking.

Shabbos permits us to live in spacious, expansive time, not in a static eternity but in a mindfully unfolding landscape that welcomes broadly smiling human faces.

Shabbos is not a contrivance, not a scheme dreamed up adventitiously, but a sacred interval, a devotional cadence that has been with humans longer than the reach of human memory.

The passage of time need not be a metric of loss; it can be the marker of growth. Life may hold new realizations, fresh insights, more expansive visions, and warmer heart-openings.