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Parashat Emor<\/em> focuses on the special celebrations of the moadim<\/em> (holidays), that is, the \u201cfixed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as sacred occasions\u201d (Lev. 23:2), such as the spring and summer festivals of Passover and Shavuot and the fall festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.<\/p>\n

And the Sabbath, the weekly festival: \u201cOn six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred occasion. You shall do no work; it shall be a Sabbath of the Lord throughout your settlement\u201d (Lev. 23:3). What is the connection between the three appearances of this idea: here, toward the end of the story of Creation (Gen. 2:1\u20133) and again as the fourth of the Ten Commandments (Exod. 20:11)?<\/p>\n

Avner Moriah focuses on this verse, which he visualizes in a painting similar to the one he created for Parashat Bereshit<\/em>. This most colorful picture figures the six days of Creation, depicting the non-anthropomorphic spirit of God as a three-dimensional spiral; the tohu<\/em> as erratically arrayed amorphous yellow shapes; the firmament; the separation of the water and the land; all of the Earth\u2019s flora, fowl, fish and sea creatures, land animals, and finally the prominent images of Adam and Eve, the crown of Creation.<\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s decision to repeat most of the elements from the picture of Creation elucidates why the law of the Sabbath is repeated here after having appeared earlier in both Genesis and Exodus. Each time the law was reiterated the Israelites were reminded that by working six days and resting on the seventh they were imitating God and His acts in Creation.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the reference to Genesis underscores the primordial concept of the moadim <\/em>by recalling the story of Creation. The same word appears in the first chapter of Genesis in connection with the creation of the luminaries: \u201cGod said \u2018Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times (moadim<\/em>) \u2013 the days and years (Gen. 1:14). The word moadim <\/em>is related to the verb \u201cto assign, to appoint, or to fix.\u201d Once the sun and the moon were created they marked day and night and the months and the seasons, thus enabling determination of the dates of the moadim<\/em>, as we read: \u201cSet times of the Lord, the moadim, <\/em>sacred occasions, which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time\u201d (Lev. 23:4).<\/p>\n

So like the Sabbath, the moadim <\/em>have their origin in the Creation story. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh and so it should be with humans. God also created the sun and the moon, but then it became human responsibility to fix the times of the various moadim <\/em>so that they fall in the right season and on the right day. 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