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Parshat Bereshit
1998
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1. What is the difference between work and creating?
2. Is there another kind of work that God did keep doing?
3. Was the seventh day a day of doing nothing for God?
4. What does it mean for God to bless and sanctify a day?
A Word
A simple reading of the verse tells us that God was busy on the seventh day. It received a blessing and was also sanctified.
The fact that shabbat is blessed is not lost on the close readers of traditional Judaism. A look at the Friday night prayer "Magen Avot" which is said after the silent devotion declares that shabbat is the well-spring of blessing. God was busy making blessings possible and somehow that transcends worldly creation as we know it. We know it only because we can feel it and that somehow it is tied up with non-creative doing.
It is from these words, the last words of the creation story that our world truly begins.
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