Sabbath and Festivals
Shabbat, festivals, the calendar, the sabbatical year and the meaning of sacred time.
15 articles- The Sabbath, Israel, and the NationsFrom the book “In Search of Lost Meaning”
- The Sabbath, Israel, and the NationsThe Sabbath is universal at its foundation, but acquires the meaning of holiness among the people of IsraelFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- The Calendar of the FloodFrom the book “In Search of Lost Meaning”About 15 min readPodcast (Hebrew)
- “Thou Shalt Not Seethe a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”From the book “In Search of Lost Meaning”
- The Sabbath and the TabernacleFrom the book “In Search of Lost Meaning”
- When Does the New Year Begin?The Torah’s spring and autumn calendars begin around solar equinoxes, without fixed lunar-month datesFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- The Manna Left for the SabbathOn the plain meaning of the text, cooking raw manna on the Sabbath was permittedFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- Revering Parents and Keeping the SabbathKedoshim begins with Sabbath and parents because they represent worship’s two centers: relations with God and with other peopleFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- The LORD’s Appointed Times or Israel’s?New moons are Israel’s appointed times and therefore absent from the LORD’s appointed timesFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- The Connection between the LORD's Appointed Seasons and TzaraatAs with tzaraat, in determining the festivals it is human beings who give the phenomenon its meaningFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- Does the Jubilee Year Begin on the Tenth of the Seventh Month?The tenth of the month is only an announcement – the Jubilee begins after the Feast of IngatheringFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- The Miracle of the Sabbatical YearThe sabbatical commandment presupposes a miraculous reality before it begins – without that reality it has no applicationFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- “Thy Man-servant and Thy Maid-servant … as Well as Thou”The Sabbath, like the sabbatical and Jubilee years, expresses a social vision of equality between classesFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- “And This Is the Manner of the Release”In the plain meaning, releasing debts means postponing collection during the sabbatical year rather than canceling the debtFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
- “Thou Shalt Not Seethe a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”Shavuot’s exceptional permission to bring leaven and honey does not permit violating the mother–offspring bond by cooking a kid in its mother’s milkFrom the book “Peshat in Brief (working title)”
Podcast (Hebrew)