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Our chapter concludes with what may be regarded as the most significant prophetic proclamation about Shabbat: <\/span><\/p>\n

If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from pursuing your affairs on My holy day. If you call the sabbath \u2018delight\u2019, the Lord\u2019s holy day \u2018honored\u2019. And if you honor it and go not your ways, nor look to your affairs, nor strike bargains, then you shall delight in the Lord… (58:13-14).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his Mishneh Torah, Maimonides refers to these verses at both the beginning and the end of the final chapter (30) of Hilkhot Shabbat. The two aspects of Shabbat observance that are explicated by the Prophets are \u201cHonoring Shabbat (Kevod Shabbat<\/em>)\u201d and \u201cDelighting in Shabbat (Oneg Shabbat<\/em>)\u201d (Halakhah 1)\u2026 Whoever observes the Shabbat, according to Law, and honors it and delights in it according to his ability, will receive reward in this world in addition to the reward in the world to come, as Isaiah proclaims: ‘Then you shall delight in the Lord\u2026\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The early Midrash Mekhilta (Bahodesh 7) extends Isaiah\u2019s Shabbat proclamation in a significant way: \u201cSix days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Shabbat of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work\u201d (Exodus 20:8-9) \u2013 Rest even from the thought of labor (shvut mi-mahshevet avodah<\/em>), as it says: \u201cIf you turn away your foot from Shabbat, from pursuing your affairs on My holy day\u2026then you shall delight in the Lord\u201d (Isaiah 58:13-14).<\/span><\/p>\n

The more specific prohibition recorded in Bavli Shabbat 38b (according to the commentary of Rashi), \u201cA man may not go into his field (on Shabbat) in order to see what work is necessary (after Shabbat)\u201d seems clearly to be based on an implicit interpretation of Isaiah\u2019s prophecy: \u201cIf you turn away your foot from Shabbat, from pursuing your affairs on My holy day\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significantly, this line of Halakhic midrash on Isaiah\u2019s prophecy seems already to be reflected in the Sabbath Laws preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q421, 4Q264a) and in a previously discovered parallel text found among the manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah. The \u201cDamascus Covenant\u201d (10:20-21) rules: \u201cA man may not walk in the field in order to do [i.e. to plan] his desired labor [for the days following the] Sabbath\u201d. This appears to be a creative interpretation of the two initial phrases of Isaiah\u2019s Shabbat proclamation: \u201cIf you turn away your foot from Shabbat, from pursuing your affairs on My holy day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We might ask if it is perhaps beyond the limits of normal mental self-control to prohibit even thinking for the duration of Shabbat about what work must be done in the coming week?\u00a0 Nevertheless, to what extent and in what way might this Shabbat proscription be practiced today?<\/span><\/p>\n

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