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 Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:18 pm
Shabbat as I understand it is meant to work as a duality of rest and holiness.
Since the whole UC thing, I have no energy for shul. I'm barely out of bed by the time services start.
I have to choose between a Shabbat where I rest and a Shabbat of Holiness.
Ideally I should shoot for both, but when only one of the two is possible, which one is more important? Rest or Holiness?
In my particular case and in general.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:38 pm
Well you know how I think... unconventionally.
I look at it this way.
If you have an over abundance of energy laying around on the Shabbat. Then use it, for holiness.
If you lack the energy, want, need, desire to attend Shul for shabbat. Then stay home and at least remember it is Shabbat by lighting candles and saying a prayer.
Personally, I found the Sabbath schlep to be a mind numbing pain in the a** while at college.
No TV, no cigarettes, have to walk 4 miles in an afternoon in flat shoes on pavement to the Chabad House in the city. Meanwhile my electronics and computer work projects are falling behind because you cannot start or complete a project on the Sabbath, let alone use electronic anything, and because the college I went to had hippies design the public bathrooms with automatic lights and toilets, I had to go have way across campus to find the one building that the facilities were not electrically controlled.
Some students saw this as a challenge to overcome as an act of devotion, however I felt it as a sign that I don't belong.
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 7:20 am
Shabbat LAWS deal with how one should rest, how one should avoid melachot (work).
The RESULTS of obeying those laws is kedushah (holiness).
It's like marriage. The LAWS of marriage include fidelity. The RESULT of fidelity is a strong marriage.
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