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Jun 20, 2012 · I understood the term to mean designated, differentiated or set aside for a purpose. So Kiddush-קידוש would be the verbal declaration that designates the day of Shabbat and differentiates it from all the days that precede it (see the Rambam on the Mitzva of Kiddush).
Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals; and our Holy of Holies is a shrine that neither the Romans nor the Germans were able to burn . . . .
- Rest and Remember
- Covenant and Commandment
- The Sabbath Bride
- Heschel and The “Cathedral in Time”
The first reason the Torah gives begins in the book of Genesis: “On the seventh day, God finished that work that He had been doing…. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had done.” (Genesis 2:2-3). Although there is no mention here that human beings should also observe ...
The second reason the Torah gives for observing Shabbat appears in the version of the Ten Commandments presented in the Book of Deuteronomy. God says, “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe Sh...
Jewish tradition continued to expand and embellish these theological themes of Shabbat. In late antiquity, according to the Talmud, the rabbis used to dress in white garments, as a bridegroom, and walk out among the hills calling, “Come my Beloved, let us greet the Shabbat bride!” This is the basis for the liturgical poem Lecha Dodi (“come my belov...
The great 20th-century Jewish theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in his influential work The Sabbath, poetically articulates the notion of Shabbat as “a cathedral in time” — a “place” in time rather than space in which we develop the practices of sacred rest, and focus on being in the world rather than transforming it. Sign up for My Jewish L...
Wurmbrand came to understand what Isaiah knew, that the Lord God is “Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh.” Please understand, it is wonderful what Jesus has done for us. Indeed, it is only when we see the holiness of God that we truly begin to glimpse the wonder of God’s provision for us through the Messiah.
KEDUSHAH (Heb. קְדֻשָּׁה). The biblical term for holiness is kodesh; mishnaic Hebrew, kedushah, and that which is regarded as holy is called kadosh.
May 10, 2024 · Making the Sabbath holy begins with lighting candles. Tradition tells us that this custom stretches all the way back to Sarah. The light in her tent was said to stay lit from Shabbat to Shabbat.
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From ancient to modern times, observance of the Shabbat has served as a touchstone for individual Jews to identify with a particular community within the Jewish people. Today, for example, traditional Jews refrain from lighting or tending to a fire of any sort.
