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The Rest

The Sabbath as more than a day set aside — the seventh day as a wedding, the marriage of the masculine and feminine, and the yoke that turns out to be rest: “Take my yoke upon you… and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”

4 essays

  1. 1The Day Without an Evening — The Sabbath as WeddingThe seventh day as the marriage of the masculine and feminine, the week as a chuppah, and a gentle word about grooms who labor through the wedding
  2. 2The Unclosed Day — The Commandments in Order and the Sabbath LedgerThe ten as a load-bearing sequence, the beam as commandments one-through-three in miniature, the fourth as the equality-clasp, and the rest that can still be entered Today
  3. 3The Yoke and the Rest"Take my yoke upon you" read through the sabbath-wedding and the arithmetic of without — with Matthew 12 and 13 as its own commentary
  4. 4The Half and the WholeTime, times, and half a time — whose they are; and Sabaoth, Son Ahman, Alpha and Omega — the Names of the rest they empty into