The 39 Prohibitions of Shabbat, Lesson 1: An introduction, and the melachot of sowing, plowing, reaping, binding sheaves
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Rabbi Mendel Dubov is the director of Chabad in Sussex County, NJ, and a member of faculty at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ.
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Thank you. Your's is the best explaination of Shabbat we found in ONE PLACE I was going to comment at the end but then I figured the beginning is best. G-d, the Mind, Power & Glory of all natural powers seen & unseen, that is available to us & for us so we can survive here in this physical world... G-d rests on the 7th day! We, to honor His Day of REST, we should not USE His powers for anything but HEALING ourselves on SHABBAT: rest is healing. So, as the wife/mother/daughter, I get everything I can done before Shabbat so I can allow G-d's Holy day of REST to happens as Torah states... give the Powers of G-d REST UNLESS it is for healing and the healing powers should be used. I work G-d's powers as I work making bread/food/drink, and as I clean and make ready but when Shabbat arrives... G-d should rest from ordinary work & we should bask in His healing Powers & rest. lamps lighted before Shabbat, out/covered at bedtime lets the Power of Light just "be". The soup being "on" all Shabbat lets the soup just "be". Peaceful union of healing for G-d & man is Shabbat.