(for Parshat Yitro)
i
God says:
Remember the Sabbath day. Work for six days and on the seventh you shall rest
because God worked for six days and on the seventh He rested.
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But it is unclear what we must remember:
if we must remember God’s rest,
or we must simply recall that we must rest each week
with God’s long-ago rest only as background
for what we do now.
ii
This lack of clarity
this permeable line between your week and God’s
points to how your week is part of God’s week:
how within the long coursing endless history
of all of God’s work, since the beginning of Time,
your week is there.
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And to delve deeply into your week
to become deeply aware of your week
to remember your week
is to know this,
is to remember this:
that all along your weeks have been holy,
that all along your life has been holy,
that all that you’ve lived,
day in and day out
week in and week out
has been tied to God.
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Shabbat shalom,
Abe
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