Week Four: The Sabbath Day is Holy Scripture: So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work that he had (Gen. 2:3) done in creation. Meditation: As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which humanity rises. Lincoln —Abraham Reflection: of the most distinguished words in the Bible is the word holy; a word which more than qadosh, “One any other is representative of the mystery and majesty of the divine. Now what was the first holy object in the history of the world? Was it a mountain? Was it an altar? It is, indeed, a unique occasion at which the distinguished word is qadosh used for the first time: in the book of Genesis at the end of the story of creation. How extremely significant is the fact that it is applied to There is no reference in the record of creation to time: God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.” “So any object endowed with the quality of holiness. . . . Yet it seems as if to the Bible it is the Sabbath, holiness in time, which comes first.” --Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath Closing: O God, draw us ever closer to you, and then teach us again the deeper meaning of holiness of time—the way you intended. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Good Sabbath to you, Nancy Hollomon-Peede
Week Four: The Sabbath Day is Holy Scripture: So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. (Gen. 2:3) Meditation: As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which humanity rises. —Abraham Lincoln Reflection: “One of the most distinguished words in the Bible is the word qadosh, holy; a word which more than any other is representative of the mystery and majesty of the divine. Now what was the first holy object in the history of the world? Was it a mountain? Was it an altar? It is, indeed, a unique occasion at which the distinguished word qadosh is used for the first time: in the book of Genesis at the end of the story of creation. How extremely significant is the fact that it is applied to time: “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.” There is no reference in the record of creation to any object endowed with the quality of holiness. . . . Yet it seems as if to the Bible it is holiness in time, the Sabbath, which comes first.” --Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath Closing: O God, draw us ever closer to you, and then teach us again the deeper meaning of holiness of time—the way you intended. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Good Sabbath to you, Nancy Hollomon-Peede
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