This week we are commanded to keep the Shabbat - there is no more elevated bridge between this world and the next; it’s the finite time and space where our soul feels tapped into the infinite. Its splendor is ineffable. Hashem created the world in six days, and on the seventh He rested. We spend our days emulating Hashem in creating, in trying to conquer nature, to mold it into our desires, but on the seventh, on Shabbat, we are told to stop, to take a break, to meditate on being created and abstain from creating. We take a pause from trying to rise above what is natural and meditate on nature itself, on receiving in full faith that Hashem provides and is fully in charge & that no matter how hard we work, in the end, it is all in the hands of Hashem.

Shabbat, is a taste of the infinite, but it’s still bound in time and space. It’s a gift from God that we even get that taste, as it is stated in Talmud, “The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe, I have a precious gift in My treasure house, and it is called the Shabbat.”

For me, when I’m in it, it’s hard to let it go, feeling the anxiety of getting back to the regular week, of turning my phone and computer back on and what might await. Now more than ever, it seems essential to take this time to truly unplug once a week, to center oneself without the constant distraction of modernity, shifting focus to community, prayer, meditation and truly being present.

Rebbe Nachman writes that in this verse, LeDoRotam (throughout the generations), alludes to DiRah (dwelling), teaching that we have to draw Shabbat into our dwelling so that our physical spaces will feel the spiritual light that is Shabbat. The next verse we read the famous “For in the Six Days God made.” Rabbeinu teaches that it can also be read as “For God made Six Days,” meaning Hashem created time and the six days that concentrically encircle the inner focal point of creation which is Shabbat. Each day that is closer to Shabbat in time is also spiritually closer, which is also why human beings were created last, as we have the ability to elevate time & draw down the Infinite Light.

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Much love & Shabbat Shalom!🤍🕊
- Erez // @erezsafar

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