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Shabbat and Mourning
Tags: Heschel, Mashiach, Shabbat, the three weeks, Yeshua
With all the recent focus on mourning, lament, and general gloominess the past few months of the calendar, some may wonder if we are simply spiraling further and further down into a nihilistic dungeon of despair. Rest assured, there is also joy in the midst of our grief.
As the wise Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote in his classic work The Sabbath, Shabbat is a sanctuary in time. Even during the three weeks of mourning, all mourning restrictions are lifted and we are once again beckoned to delight in God's holy day with complete happiness and joy.
So with all heaviness and sobriety of these summer months, we still have reason to celebrate the hope we have. Shabbat is a picture of that future time when Mashiach returns and reestablishes the very Temple Mount that lay desolate for so many years. He will turn these days of despair in to joyous feasts of gladness.
May you be blessed with a happy and joy-filled Shabbat in our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Grace and peace,
Seth Michael Dralle
20 Tammuz 5767
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My favorite line from that book goes something like, "The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals."
MJ
MJ Belko | July 7, 2007 11:22 AM