Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson
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Sabbath:
Not an interlude by the climax of living
to collect rather than dissipate time
a different state of being
art of surpassing civilization
how to convert time into eternity
spirit in the form of time
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)
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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