The Sabbath

A time for prayer and fellowship. A time for rest and rejuvenation.

And I gave them my Sabbath days of rest as a sign between them and me. It was to remind them that I, the LORD, had set them apart to be holy, making them my special people. --Ezekiel 20:12

From OneYearBibleblog this week: " the Sabbath days of rest were given as a sign between God and his people. Are you taking a day of rest each week? Would taking a day of rest - a Sabbath day - benefit your relationship with God? And with others? Would it benefit perhaps the other 6 days of your week?"

Sabbath.

Above, "The Sabbath Rest" by the Jewish Polish painter Samuel Hirszenberg from the year 1894:

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"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all
the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful
mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small
Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal
harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all
hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the
crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it
not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov