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If you do not obey My command to hallow the sabbath day\u2026 then I will set fire to the fortresses of Jerusalem and it shall not be extinguished (17:27).<\/span><\/p>\n

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners\u2026 It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners, because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness. It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. -Hans Jonas<\/span><\/p>\n

Various benefits of the sabbath have been highlighted by many thinkers down to our own times: its sacred nature, communing with the divine, prioritizing of what is truly important, training in self-restraint, curtailing of desire, revival of family togetherness, cultivation of self-sufficiency, restoration of personal energy, psychological cushioning in the face of taxing work-life, temporary decrease in environmental harm, the intentional interruption of material accumulation, and so on. Even the most secular individuals increasingly appreciate these insightful and urgently relevant understandings of the beauties and benefits of the sabbath. We see more and more calls for \u201csabbaths\u201d from our screen-laden devices, cities implementing car-free days and the like.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbinic model not only provides a well thought-out framework for making sabbath truly ecological, it was the original such model: a system for coping with and providing spiritual and cognitive fortitude against what for the rabbis was already then the Anthropocene Era, a world altered by human activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, sabbath observers might well consider committing not to build, operate or work in factories, do business, farm, produce clothes at home, drive cars, fly, use engines of any kind, spend money, hunt, etc. People might avoid using electricity. Cooking could be done in advance or one suffices with room-temperature food. Unplugged, with our distractions eliminated, Shabbat can serve us as a day for taking a walk, playing with our kids, reading on our own or reading out loud, conversing with friends or singing, and regenerating energy for fighting for justice. Green sabbaths can become a day to celebrate through local community activities without producing carbon emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our sabbath days must become a time of active avoidance of environmental vandalism, a time for congregational and individual reflection on how we are undoing creation. Green Sabbaths can digest anew the biblical prophets\u2019 warnings against the corruption of the rich and powerful, the oppression of the poor and the self-centered pursuit of short-sighted pleasures, understanding how relevant such warnings are to the ecological devastation wrought by hypercapitalism. Sabbath properly practiced offers a weekly interruption of the suicidal econometric fantasy of infinite growth, a weekly divestment from fossil fuels, a weekly investment in local community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpted from Observing Sabbath in the Anthropocene Era<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>See his<\/span> The Sabbath in an Era of Climate Change<\/span><\/a> in Tablet, and his project website –\u00a0www.greensabbathproject.net.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":70241,"id":70241,"title":"Jer17-nowork","filename":"Jer17-nowork.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-sabbath-of-the-world\/jer17-nowork\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer17-nowork","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70240,"date":"2020-02-16 13:18:02","modified":"2022-06-01 14:47:31","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":300,"height":286,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork-300x286.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":286,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","medium_large-width":300,"medium_large-height":286,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","large-width":300,"large-height":286,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","1536x1536-width":300,"1536x1536-height":286,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","2048x2048-width":300,"2048x2048-height":286,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","post_full_size-width":300,"post_full_size-height":286,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","home_baner-width":300,"home_baner-height":286}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Is there nothing you can do about the environment?","main_caption":"A Sabbath Of The World","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Nothing may be one of the best things you can do. 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