Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Emor called "Three Versions of Shabbat". You can read it in full here: bit.ly/2YziPg2 and download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2Jvk5O7. #ShabbatShalom
#Shabbat is the only day of the year in which the evening, morning, and afternoon prayers are different from one another.
In the Friday night Amidah, we refer to the Shabbat of creation: “You sanctified the seventh day for Your name’s sake as the culmination of the creation of heaven and earth.”
On Shabbat morning we speak about the supreme moment of revelation: “Moses rejoiced at the gift of his portion… He brought down in his hands two tablets of stone on which was engraved the observance of the Sabbath.”
On Shabbat afternoon we look forwards to the ultimate redemption, when all humanity will acknowledge that “You are One, Your name is One, and who is like Your people Israel, a nation one on earth.”
Creation, revelation, and redemption form the basic triad of the Jewish faith. They are also the most fundamental structuring principle of Jewish prayer.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the way the Torah understands Shabbat: one day with three dimensions, experienced successively in the experiences of evening, morning, and afternoon.
What is fragmented in secular culture into science, religion, and political ideology is here united in the transforming experience of God who created the universe, whose presence fills our homes with light, and who will one day lead us to a world of freedom, justice, and peace.
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