Chapter 1 (PDF) - Stanford University Press
Chapter 1 (PDF) - Stanford University Press
Chapter 1 (PDF) - Stanford University Press
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
the zohar [1:5b]<br />
said, ``If so, you have turned the Sabbath into something not holy except<br />
He<br />
the holiness that rests upon it from above!''<br />
for<br />
Abba said, ``So it is: Call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of YHVH<br />
Rabbi<br />
(Isaiah 58:13). Sabbath and holy of YHVH are each mentioned sepa-<br />
honored<br />
rately.''<br />
said, ``If so, who is holy of YHVH?''<br />
He<br />
replied, ``Holiness that descends from above, resting upon it.''<br />
He<br />
said, ``If holiness drawn down from above is called honored, then it<br />
He<br />
that the Sabbath is not honored. Yet it is written: And honor it (ibid.)!''<br />
appears<br />
El'azarsaid to Rabbi Abba, ``Let this man be! Within him lies a new<br />
Rabbi<br />
we do not know.''<br />
word<br />
said to him, ``Speak!''<br />
They<br />
\ (Et) 217<br />
SabbathsÐone is the higherSabbath; the other, the lowerSabbath, 220 both<br />
My<br />
as one, concealed as one.<br />
included<br />
221 was left unmentioned and felt ashamed. She said before<br />
``AnotherSabbath<br />
`Master of the universe, since the day You created me, I have been called<br />
Him,<br />
there can be no day without night.' 222 He replied, `My daughter,<br />
SabbathÐand<br />
are SabbathÐI call you SabbathÐbut I am about to crown you with a<br />
you<br />
crown.' He issued a proclamation: My sanctuary you are to hold in awe.<br />
higher<br />
is the Sabbath of Sabbath eve, who is awe and in whom awe dwells. 223<br />
This<br />
sense, but Naḥum of Gimzo and<br />
dependent<br />
disciple Rabbi Akiva taught that when et<br />
his<br />
in a biblical verse, it amplifies the<br />
appears<br />
meaning.<br />
original<br />
BT Pesaḥim 22b; Ḥagigah 12a±b; Zohar<br />
See<br />
247a; 2:90a, 135b.<br />
1:79b,<br />
``to increase''Ðthat is, to include,<br />
(le-rabbot),<br />
orwiden the scope of meaning.<br />
amplify,<br />
2000 cubits The traditional limitation<br />
219.<br />
on how farone may walk beyond the<br />
limits on the Sabbath. See Mekhilta,<br />
city<br />
6; cf. Zohar 2:207a. Here it refers<br />
Vayassa<br />
the range of holiness beyond the realm<br />
to<br />
the sefirot; according to KP, the feet of<br />
of<br />
the higher Sabbath . . . the lower<br />
220.<br />
The higherSabbath is Binah, the<br />
Sabbath<br />
sefirah counting up from Yesod. The<br />
seventh<br />
is Yesod, the seventh sefirah<br />
lowerSabbath<br />
down from Binah.<br />
counting<br />
Another Sabbath Sabbath eve, sy-<br />
221.<br />
Shekhinah.<br />
mbolizing<br />
there can be no day . . . The sefiro-<br />
222.<br />
day of Yesod needs the night of Shekhinah.<br />
tic<br />
Bereshit Rabbah 11:8, where according to<br />
See<br />
Shim'on son of Yoḥai, the Sabbath<br />
Rabbi<br />
to God that she has no partner<br />
complains<br />
the days of the week, and she is told:<br />
among<br />
Assembly of Israel is your partner.''<br />
``The<br />
BT Ḥullin 60b.<br />
See<br />
who is awe... The ``Sabbath of<br />
223.<br />
eve'' (Friday night) is Shekhinah,<br />
Sabbath<br />
conveys the attribute of Judgment, in-<br />
who<br />
awe and fear. The sefirah of Ḥokhmahspiring<br />
the fatherof Shekhinah, is also called<br />
opened, saying, `` B \ \G\C[ K (Et Shabbetotai), My Sabbaths. B<br />
He<br />
amplifies the meaning to include 218 the range of Sabbath, which is 2000 cubits<br />
every direction. 219 So the meaning is expanded: B \ \G\C[ K (Et Shabbetotai),<br />
in<br />
32<br />
B \ (Et) Grammatically, the accusa-<br />
217.<br />
particle B \ (et) has no ascertainable intive<br />
218. amplifies the meaning to include<br />
F<br />
(Le-asga'ah), ``To increase,'' a Zoha-<br />
BDSBN<br />
rendering of the rabbinic Hebrew N \GCZ<br />
ric<br />
the divine chariot.