It’s one of the Big Ten. And a focus of this week’s Torah portion. Keep the Sabbath. Six days we work and the seventh day we rest. Shouldn’t be that hard . . . right? Yet stopping is tougher than it seems. We need to work. Ideally, we also want to work. Hopefully we feel our work is fulfilling and impacts others. Yet often, the more satisfaction we get from our jobs, and the more creative they are, the harder resting from them just might be. It may be hard to believe that the world will go on if we stop.

But that is what Shabbat is all about. We are supposed to be productive. We are supposed to be creative. We are supposed to impact the world around us. For six days. But for that seventh, we are supposed to remember and recognize and acknowledge that ultimately we are not the Creator. For 25 hours, we stop actively creating and focus on what we were created for. It is Shabbat, our day of rest, which reminds us why we work in the first place.

So have a great week. Work hard. Rest peacefully!

Sara Esther Crispe,
On behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team