Portion of the Week; Bereshit 42-1, Rabbi Chiel

it's b bird age is all too although i'm only eighteen days harshaw i am they use although it's illegal the bible was read in the synagogue with rabbinic commentary this evening we're rabbi samuels feel spiritual leader of the conservative congregation all the malvern jewish center in malvern long island and my dear friends one of israel's most hallowed institutions is the sabbath and the first time it is mentioned in the bible is at the very

beginning of the second chapter of the book of genesis like to see how the bible puts it and are having and the earth were finish and all the host of them and on the seventh day god finished his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and god bless the seventh day and how would it because on it he rested from all his word which he had created we wrap our ears of the midrash comments on diverse we'd said and on the seventh day god finished his work and they said that this would imply that gaga did some work on the seventh day

itself the very same day that he orders lying to cease work and to rest how can this possibly be the answer by the rabbis set of course god did not work on the sabbath but the meaning of the verses this that when god rested in that very act of his ceasing his work something new was brought into the world of rain precious qualities of the spirits were brought into the world that man needs so desperately this day the first quality they say god brought into the world with its secession of work was what is called in hebrew show among meaning tranquility when a jew observes the sabbath

by ceasing to his daily work his daily struggle for a living he begins to sense that precious quality that he lacks the other six days of the week one of the wise roles of the sabbath is that you must empty your pockets of money on this day because our tradition knew very well but when amanda empties his pockets of money somehow it hopes to make himself of the worries that money symbolizes of the strain of business of the exhaustion that carlos was shopping at marketing of the running the frantic pace of the weekday world as our pace slows down so do our incessant anxieties and tensions

lose their intensity so do we begin to feel the holy ghost and the rest for us somehow we begin to understand what our parents or our grandparents men when they said in yiddish ohio says shoppers concert know it's one can feel the sabbath pervading the entire universe somehow it felt to them as if the whole world shared their feeling of tranquility that feeling became to be true as his shop us began and then the rabbi say a second quality came to the world when god rested again the quality that man needs so very much and as they call us or

serenity i'm sure that we all recognize this word nauseous from the yiddish or from the hebrew as representing the kind of a blessing that we pray for especially do we pray for not us from our children now this is the kind of feeling that all of us feel of the great moments of life at a bar mitzvah or a boss at a wedding at those wonderful moments that hello and glorify our lives but god didn't want us to enjoy our nervous at those rare occasions only he wanted us to have that feeling of serenity that feeling of happiness at least once each week every sabbath it's the kind of feeling that comes in a jewish home of a friday evening where the family sits around the table with the campbell's glowing

singing the song the sabbath wellcome shalom aleichem the father chanting the kibosh sang defying the sabbath over a goblet of wine where a family feels the warmth and the happiness and a lot of the whole family enjoying the sabbath together this is the meaning of an office this is the meaning of real serenity to judaism offers to a jew every shrub us every sabbath finally the rabbi say there was a third quality the guard brought to the world and he rested on the seventh day this thing called a show of all meaning peace i'm sure that all of us know the beautiful word shalom which also means peace but the emphasis in shallow

is that a man ought to be at peace with his fellow man a very important emphasis that this word shall vote has a slightly different connotation perhaps it connotes an even more precious quality for men it means that when a man has shelled all that he is at peace with himself god knew that all we the soul would be submerged and thwarted and forgotten as men are caught up in the struggle for material existence suddenly on the sabbath as we worship in the synagogue as we listen to the cantor chanting the beautiful liturgy of the sabbath as we listen to the readings of the torah that our people have been listening to for thousands of years it's as

we begin to give expression to our deepest longings and need it's then we begin to think of ourselves once again as children of god you have to do more with our lives than simply amassing material means we want to feel that we are not only taking but also contributing to the world which god has given us we want to share it together in the act of perfecting his universe through our benefactions and our acts of loving kindness to our fellow man only when we begin to think of this real purpose for living only then do we achieve perspective and direction for our lines only then do we begin to feel at peace with ourselves and with our god

is real sign will a great anglo jewish poet perhaps best described this feeling of peace and tranquility that is experienced by a jew on the sabbath and a beautiful poem called the hebrews friday night that i should ally to read to you with this time sweatt sabbath bride the hebrews theme of praise celestial maiden with a starry eyes around nine had a sacred nimbus place i smile as soft as loosened summer skies before thy purity all evil dies in winning robot stainless sunshine dress now don as strong life's darkness and it

carries the bridal wreath is lily's haven't bless the dowry peace and love and holiness and arrests the father from the synagogue returns they singing burdens nestling at its heart and from without the festive like discerns which tells his faithful wife has done her part to welcome sabbath with don't mess to cart he enters an perceives the picture true and tears and didn't from his eyelids start as paradise lost opens on his view and any smiles and thanks god he's a jew for friday night is written on his home in fear white characters his wife has spread the snow we sat with cloth the hebrew told the flask and cup are at the tables had

their sabbath magic in a very grand and royal fair the humble dishes seem a holy light the sabbath candles sharon around his children's shining face is beaming he feels the strength of everyday be far off dream his loving wife he kisses and then he lays upon each child's young had two loving hands of benediction so after days when they shall be a foreign other lions they shall be needed to god and home by bands of sacred memory and any makes the blessing or the wine and while it stands the quaintly convoluted brady breaks which tastes who all tonight more sweet then honey takes so when a thousand squalid ghettos band encouragement undismayed by

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