{"id":41864,"date":"2018-10-11T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41864"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T20:32:55","slug":"from-slavery-to-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/from-slavery-to-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"From Slavery to Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[413,354,378],"acf":{"old_id":"41864","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"66","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A one-day-in-seven rehearsal of freedom ","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat, which we encounter for the first time in this chapter, is one of the greatest institutions the world has ever known. It changed the way the world thought about time. Prior to Judaism, people measured time either by the sun \u2013 the solar calendar of 365 days aligning us with the seasons \u2013 or by the moon, that is, by months (\u201cmonth\u201d comes from the word \u201cmoon\u201d) of roughly thirty days. The idea of the seven-day week \u2013 which has no counterpart in nature \u2013 was born in the Torah and spread throughout the world via Christianity and Islam, both of which borrowed it from Judaism, marking the difference simply by having it on a different day. We have years because of the sun, months because of the moon, and weeks because of the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Shabbat did and still does is to create space within our lives and within society as a whole in which we are truly free. Free from the pressures of work; free from the demands of ruthless employers; free from the siren calls of a consumer society urging us to spend our way to happiness; free to be ourselves in the company of those we love. Somehow this one day has renewed its meaning in generation after generation, despite the most profound economic and industrial change. In Moses\u2019 day it meant freedom from slavery to Pharaoh. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century it meant freedom from sweatshop working conditions of long hours for little pay. In ours, it means freedom from emails, smartphones and the demands of 24\/7 availability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What this chapter tells us is that Shabbat was among the first commands the Israelites received on leaving Egypt. Having complained about the lack of food, God told them that he would send them manna from heaven, but they were not to gather it on the seventh day. Instead a double portion would fall on the sixth. That is why to this day we have two challot on Shabbat, in memory of that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God wanted the Israelites to begin their one-day-in-seven rehearsal of freedom almost as soon as they left Egypt, because real freedom, of the seven-days-in-seven kind, takes time, centuries, millennia. The Torah regards slavery as wrong, but it did not abolish it immediately because people were not yet ready for it. Neither Britain nor America abolished it until the nineteenth century, and even then not without a struggle. 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