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To Discuss around your Shabbat Table...
- In the Torah portion of this week we deal with the building of the mishkan, the tabernacle. However, just beforehand in last week's parasha, we are reminded to not work on the Shabbat. Rabbinic Tradition understood this as implying that the Shabbat is even more important than the tabernacle, and that all the "work" linked to the construction of the Tabernacle is the "work" prohibited during Shabbat. According to the Mishnah, there are 39 principal types of labor (called "Avot") that are prohibited on Shabbat with all sorts of subcategories developed (called "toldot"). For example: to sow is in the category of "avot", therefore, the watering of plants on shabbat is considered prohibited as a "toldot".
(39 Avot: Sewing, Ploughing, Reaping, Binding Sheaves, Threshing, Winnowing, Selecting, Grinding, Sifting, Kneading, Baking, Shearing, Washing, Beating (wool), Dying, Spining, Weaving, Making two loops, Weaving two threads, Separates two threads, Tying, Untying, Sewing two stitches, Tearing in order to sew two stitches, Traping, Slaughtering, Flaying, Salting, Curing a hide, Scrapes a hide, Cuts up a hide, Writing, Erasing, Building, Tearing down, Extinguishing or Kindling a fire, Hammering, Transferring an object from one domain to another, putting the finishing touches to a work begun before Shabbat.)
How can not doing certain types of labor enable us to look at our own lives differently? What would be the list of types of labor to refrain from doing on Sabbat for your family? Are there activities that you and your family do differently on Shabbat than on the other days of the week? Which ones?
- What does the heart symbolize to you? Why?
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