{"id":49690,"date":"2019-02-18T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49690"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:40:21","slug":"the-political-vision-of-shabbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-political-vision-of-shabbat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Vision Of Shabbat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[469,413,597,354,378],"acf":{"old_id":"49690","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"158","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Passover tells us how the Israelites won their freedom; Shabbat tells us how they kept it","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sabbath (in Hebrew, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a religious institution, a memorial to creation, the day on which God Himself rested. But it is also and essentially a political institution. Shabbat is the greatest tutorial in liberty ever devised. Passover tells us how the Israelites won their freedom. Shabbat tells us how they kept it. One day in seven, Jews create a messianic society. It is the day on which everyone, master and slave, employer and employee, even animals, experience unconditional freedom. We neither work nor get others to work, manipulate nor allow ourselves to be manipulated. We may neither buy nor be bought. It is the day on which all hierarchies, all relationships of power are suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat was, of course, the antithesis of Egypt \u2013 the free society as opposed to a society of slaves. Slaves work without rest at the will of their masters. So the first mark of the Israelites\u2019 freedom was a day of rest for everyone:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On it you shall do no work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your animals, nor the stranger within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. (Deuteronomy 5:14-15)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Shabbat was also a way of enacting, while on the way, the journey\u2019s end, the destination. Slavery was not immediately abolished; it existed in most parts of the world until the nineteenth century. Even today there are lesser forms of servitude \u2013 insecurity, workaholism, the hundred stresses and anxieties of everyday life. And as Marx never tired of telling us, slaves get used to their chains. So, within time itself, everyone had to experience unconditioned freedom so as never to lose the love of liberty, even though as yet it lasts only one day in seven. Jews never lost those two memories: the taste of affliction on Pesach, the taste of freedom on Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat is also a way of living out another idea, the concept of possession without ownership which is at the heart of Judaism\u2019s social and environmental ethic. Every week, for a day, Jews live not as creators but creations. On Shabbat the world belongs to God, not us. We renounce our mastery over nature and the animals. We see the earth as a thing of independent dignity and integrity. We become God\u2019s guests, as Judah Halevi put it, recognizing the limits of human striving. 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