The Sabbath is being emphasized in talks and articles throughout The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a newspaper article David Dollahite spoke about ways the Jewish people honor the Sabbath and make it a delight.
“In his book The Sabbath, Jewish author Abraham Joshua Heschel states that “Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time” (p. 8, italics in original) and points out that, after creating the earth, God chose to sanctify time — the seventh day or Sabbath — rather than space (e.g., this mountain, that valley, the sun, or moon). Heschel says, “Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul” (p. 13). Heschel refers to the Sabbath as a “temple in time.”
"Observant Jewish families sanctify time in a number of ways by creating an “island of sacred time” in a sea of secularism. Their focus is not so much on what they cannot do but rather how they can make the Sabbath day sacred — or set apart from the other days.”
jht - I like the concept of sanctifying time as a way of describing our observance of the Sabbath and how it is different from the other six days in the week. I also like the idea of caring for the “seed of eternity planted in the soul.” With the busyness and noise of the world it is too easy to forget that seed exists much less take the time and effort to nourish it.
"Sunday shouldn't get in the way of our lives, Sunday should be the center of our lives."*
Amen!
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