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Why does Shabbat exist?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Shabbat is what it is because God imbued it with its special qualities (Genesis ch.2). This connects with the Jewish people because God commanded them to keep the Shabbat (Exodus ch.20 and many other verses).

God gave us the gift of the Shabbat because He knows that we need "time out;" time to regroup, to relax, to hear the Torah being read and to discuss it, to reconnect with God, with our communities, and with and our family, and to be without the constant background noise of cell-phones etc., etc.

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12y ago

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