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\nThere is a famous book by a rabbi named Abraham Heschel. The Sabbath is a little book about the mystical power of the Sabbath; it has a hushed tone, as though Abraham was writing about something sacred, unveiling a secret artifact and sharing its dangerous power with the world. When I first read it I didn\u2019t quite get it. It felt odd.<\/p>\n

Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don\u2019t do any work\u2014not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.<\/em> Exodus 20:8-11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Sabbath defies slavery.<\/strong>
\nI thought I should look into the practice of the Sabbath a bit more. And I discovered that the Sabbath becomes a big deal at the Exodus. We don\u2019t hear much about it before that besides the fact that God took a Sabbath. After he was done creating the entire cosmos (and maybe others\u2014who knows for sure?), God rested. But besides it being a part of the rhythm of creation, the Sabbath really isn\u2019t a big deal until after the Exodus. Then it becomes a major deal. I mean it\u2019s a really, really, big deal. The Sabbath comes to the forefront of the meaning of being called God\u2019s people. God writes the Sabbath down and calls it holy and tells the people that if they don\u2019t practice the Sabbath then they are not really his people.
\nWhy does it become such a big deal in this story? Why does it take such prominence? What is the big deal?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d suggest the Sabbath is a way of defying slavery. Slaves, by definition, cannot stop working. Sabbath is living in such a way that we are no longer slaves.
\nThe Israelites had spent three hundred years or so assimilating into the dominant cultural value system of Egypt. Generations had succumbed to never ceasing from work. It was normal to work all the time. The bustling and ever-increasing economy of Egypt demanded nonstop work. That work was imposed on the Israelites.
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\nGod takes a look at this people, stamped with his image but conformed to the image of Egypt. They were supposed to look more like God than Pharaoh. So God sets out to re-create them into the people that deep down they already are. They need to make a journey from slave to co-creators with God. From driven to content. That\u2019s when the Sabbath becomes a big deal.
\nThe Sabbath is not about function. It\u2019s about people.<\/strong>
\nSo, the Sabbath is a pattern for creation. It\u2019s the way a Creator who isn\u2019t constantly anxious, worried, or self-obsessed works. It\u2019s about more than him. It\u2019s about the entire created order. God is not a control freak obsessed with his own power and glory, not allowing anyone to stop working. He is a creator who creates for pleasure and beauty.
\nNothing is beautiful about slavery. It\u2019s functional but not personal. That\u2019s not the God we find in Genesis or Exodus. The Sabbath is not about function. It\u2019s about people.
\nI remember the day my son asked me to take him to the park and I readily agreed. Then he asked if I was going to bring my phone with me. I said yes. He looked sad. I asked him what the problem was. He told me that when I had my phone I wasn\u2019t really with him. It hurt a bit. Like the truth that hurts before it sets you free. I had become enslaved to my phone, and it hurt my relationship with my son. My time with him became another occasion to get some work done rather than simply enjoy his company.
\nThe Sabbath is defiance against function. It’s permission to waste time. It really is. <\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s one day a week where God says, \u201cDon\u2019t do any work. Enjoy me. Enjoy food. Enjoy people. Prioritize relationships. Waste time<\/strong>.\u201d Even writing these words are counterintuitive to me. The reason? I\u2019m a slave\u2014immersed in a dominant culture that prizes function over relationship and success over beauty and work over freedom. I\u2019m in Egypt. I look more like Egypt than I do Yahweh. And that\u2019s a problem, because the one who made me designed me to look like him. I should look like my Father.
\nThe Sabbath helps us rediscover our birthright.<\/strong>
\nSurely that\u2019s why the Sabbath is all the rage these days. It\u2019s like a rediscovery of our birthright\u2014like a lost treasure buried so long ago that no one knew where to find it. Surely there is a cry to be heard in the oppression of depression, sleeping disorders, and elevated stress levels (of both people and the earth). Surely there\u2019s a cry to be heard in cows injected with growth hormones to grow unnaturally fat or fast because none of us can wait a single day or hour or minute for what we want. None of us can stop working\u2014not ever, not even think about it\u2014because we are more inclined toward money and status and success than relationship, beauty, and freedom<\/strong>.
\nThat\u2019s the definition of slavery. You can\u2019t stop working.\u00a0Slavery is when you can't stop working. <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>
\nI found myself at an Apple store one Labor Day weekend. In America, Labor Day was created to give workers a break. But on this Labor Day weekend I had something needing repair. I commented that I probably wouldn\u2019t be able to get my phone back until the Tuesday after Labor Day. The man looked at me like I had just been born. \u201cWe are open on Labor Day.\u201d
\nI remember saying to him, \u201cDo you not get what Labor Day is celebrating?\u201d
\nHe smiled at the sarcasm and said, \u201cI get time and a half.\u201d
\nWe live in Egypt.<\/strong>
\nIf you had to choose between a day off once a year or more money, you would pick more money. Of course you would.
\nBut when the oppression of work without rest begins to wear us down and we start to buckle under the weight of \u201cnever enough,\u201d the sheer weight of the whole world revolving around us, we start to look for some alternative answers. And we don\u2019t have to look far. Look at the Sabbath.
\nRest and peace.<\/strong>
\nThe Sabbath suspends time. It points backward and forward at the same time. It grabs holds of the future God has planned\u2014a future of shalom. Shalom is a Hebrew word often translated as \u201cpeace\u201d but meaning a whole lot more. It is about wholeness and right relationships and the valuing and living of goodness. One scholar says it\u2019s about the space between everything being made right. Think about that. The space between everything. Like the way you relate to others and the way they relate to you. The way you think about yourself and the way others think about you. The holes in your life that your serenity slips through (doubt, fear, anxiety, depression) all being filled up with goodness and peace.
\nShalom is the primary part of the Sabbath. When Jewish people celebrate Sabbath by sitting around a dinner table with the family and relishing the freedom and goodness that exists in the space between them, they clink their glasses to this toast: \u201cShabbat shalom.\u201d Rest and peace.
\nYou aren\u2019t a slave.<\/strong>
\nWhat would your life look like if you consistently reminded yourself that the world didn\u2019t revolve around you? What if you released all that concerned you and the functionality of your to-do list and just spent some time with the space between things? What if instead of gripping the world and working and hustling you just let go and let God? How would it change you? How would it change those around you? What would it do for your family? Your friends? How would your stress level change if you turned off your phone and didn\u2019t answer an email for twenty-four hours once a week?
\nIt might just be enough to remind you that you aren\u2019t a slave. It might be enough to convince you that the world is in God\u2019s hands and the weight of it too. It might release you to pay attention to the space between things instead of the things themselves. It might let freedom take root inside of you and work its way into the fabric of your everyday life. And if that\u2019s the case then I salute you: Shabbat shalom.
\nFinding freedom<\/strong>
\nWhat is keeping you from Sabbath rest? How can you organize yourself to experience rest and peace on a regular basis?
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