Sy 'Adamah #SageSpeaks

The Sabbath & Passover: Meetings with the Most High (Pt.1)


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*(Alt title: Shabbat & Pesach: Moedim with Elohim)*

To be read from the twilight between two festivals (Nissan 14, 5781 / 27-28th March 2021): https://wordpress.com/post/sagespeaks.blog/308

"As the sun has set with the evening and has risen with the morning, the weekly Sabbath (Shabbat) has been celebrated; and, as the night falls on the day, the annual Passover (Pesach) will begin.

The Sabbath is the Hebrew holy day occurring once every week, from the start to the finish of every seventh day. The Sabbath day starts from sunset of the sixth until dusk of the seventh, or from the twilight of the former to the nightfall of the latter.

In Jewish tradition, the seventh day, Saturday, is dedicated to commemorate, emulate and celebrate God’s original six-day act of creation, sanctified and sealed with cessation on the seventh.

Genesis 1:31-2:3 (NKJV) (emphasis mine)“Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”
- Genesis 1:31-2:3 (NKJV) (emphasis mine)

As the Creator, God seeks to share this seal of sanctification with His creation on the seventh day of each week; as well as the day itself, God similarly sanctifies creation, His creatures and His covenant partners. And when God’s covenant partners choose to imitate God’s six-day creative act they also participate in His creative rhythm: the rhythm of creating for six and ceasing on the seventh; a harmonic series of six working days marked off with a sign of solemn rest on the seventh. [...]"

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