Shabbos is supposed to teach us about the importance of the intangible values, love, devotion, dedication. We are supposed to spend Shabbos with our family and in pursuing spiritual pursuits. We are to promote those values which cannot be quantified by time but which underlie everything we do. That is why it says, “Six days work shall be done” in the passive. Work can only be done if people have these values. If they do not, then they will destroy themselves and others.
We saw this in Nazi Germany, where there were great enterprises but they were used to promote the destruction of others and eventually of Germany itself. They were not based on positive values. The Torah says, “This seventh day shall be for you holy, a Sabbath of Sabbaths to G-d.” Many people read about Shabbos, but they do not understand what the Shabbos is about. The Shabbos is to inculcate into us those values which do not occupy any space.
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Шаббат должен научить о
значение нематериальных ценностей, любви, верности, преданности. Мы не должны тратить
Шаббат с нашей семьей для поиска духвности. Мы должны поощрять эти
ценности, которые не могут быть количественно по времени, но которые лежат в основе всех наших действий.
There’s social Shabbos, and there’s Personal Shabbos. There’s the shabbos that’s a breath of fresh air taken off of a busy week, and there’s the shabbos that breathes a breath of life! and activity! into an overly stable and stagnant pattern. It’s gotta feel good, but the more it has to, the less it can.
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Можно различать общественный(социальный) шаббат и личный шаббат. Социальный Шаббат это глоток свежего воздуха, снятыми с напряженной недели, Шаббат, что вдыхает дыхание жизни и деятельности в слишком стабильные и застойные шаблоны. Это круто, но чем больше он должен, тем меньше он может.
Understanding and connecting to Shabbat ultimately must be through the actual experience of the joy, peace, spirituality and the family/community feeling Shabbat produces. Therefore Shabbat experiences need to reflect and make available to participants these intimate experiences.
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Понимание субботы в конечном счете, должно вестись на основе фактического опыта радости, духовность и семьи / общины. Поэтому шаббат необходимо сделать доступными для участников этих интимных переживаний.
Shabbat? It saves me from the overwhelming pace of our lives. If
Shabbat was ever necessary in history, it is needed today in our
millisecond existence. Shabbat gives us a chance to rescue 1/7 of our
lives back for ourselves.
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Шаббат? Это то, что избавляет меня от подавляющего темпа нашей жизни. Если нет необходимости в Субботе в истории, она необходима сегодня в нашем миллисекундном существовании. аббат дает нам шанс, чтобы Вернуть жизнь для себя.
I would also recommend going on line and searching for sites on basic Jewish topics. One, called myjewishlearning.com is very good, you can just go there and dig in.
I think the first thing a person has to do is recognize that Judaism isn’t foreign to them. Even if it seems foreign and unintelligible that is because there needs to be a period where you adjust your eyes and ears to this way of being.
It is necessary to approach Judaism with blinders off, to see the facts as they are rather than the fantasies pushed by Orthodoxy.
