And on the seventh day...
Oct. 20th, 2006 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuThis week we read Bereshit, the first pericope in the Torah. And this morning ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
introverte and I went to our daughter's nursery school because she was "challah helper" and we listened to the teacher tell the story of the seven days of creation. And it got me thinking:
We often fall into the trap of saying that God created everything in six days, and on the seventh day God "rested" or "refrained from creation" or "didn't create anything." But the Talmud is quite clear that Shabbat itself was created on the seventh day. This goes beyond God setting the precedent of "resting" which we, in imitatio Deo are commanded to mimic.
During each moment of that first Shabbat, as I read the text and the commentaries, God was actively engaged in creating a sacred essence which is shared by all subsequent holy days. I don't honestly understand what the attribute of kedushah is or how it adheres to objects, words, and times; but I accept the concept, and I have to conclude that the Ur-kedushah was created from evening to evening of the seventh day.
introverte and I went to our daughter's nursery school because she was "challah helper" and we listened to the teacher tell the story of the seven days of creation. And it got me thinking:We often fall into the trap of saying that God created everything in six days, and on the seventh day God "rested" or "refrained from creation" or "didn't create anything." But the Talmud is quite clear that Shabbat itself was created on the seventh day. This goes beyond God setting the precedent of "resting" which we, in imitatio Deo are commanded to mimic.
During each moment of that first Shabbat, as I read the text and the commentaries, God was actively engaged in creating a sacred essence which is shared by all subsequent holy days. I don't honestly understand what the attribute of kedushah is or how it adheres to objects, words, and times; but I accept the concept, and I have to conclude that the Ur-kedushah was created from evening to evening of the seventh day.