The Sabbath

This, then, is the answer to the problem of civilization: not to flee from the realm of space; to work with things of space but to be in love with eternity. Things are our tools; eternity, the Sabbath, is our mate. Israel is engaged to eternity.

Rest on the Sabbath as if all your work were done. Another interpretation: Rest even from the thought of labor.” 13

It is a day for praise, not a day for petitions.

we look to the Sabbath as our homeland, as our source and destination.

man may enter a harbor and reclaim his dignity.

The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

The duty to work for six days is just as much a part of God’s covenant with man as the duty to abstain from work on the seventh day.

The seventh day sings.

On the Feast you may leave the Booth for a while, whereas the Sabbath surrounds you wherever you go.”