INSPIRING STORIES AND TORAH THOUGHTS ON THE TOPIC OF SHABBAT TO SUSTAIN US DURING TROUBLED TIMES
WHEN I KEEP SHABBAT,
G-D WILL WATCH OVER ME
כי אשמרה שבת א-ל ישמרני
FROM THE SCRIPTURES
What do Torah sources say about keeping Shabbat? Shabbat is a powerful defense for the Jewish people.
(Midrash Vayikra Rabba 3:1)
"Israel will only be saved in the merit of Shabbat."
(Talmud Tractate Shabbat 10b)
"G-d said to Moses: I have a good gift in My treasure house and Shabbat is its name, and I plan to give it to the people of Israel."
(Talmud Tractate Shabbat 119a)
"For it (Shabbat) is the source of blessing."
(Talmud Tractate Shabbat 118a)
"Anyone who eats three meals on Shabbat is saved from three calamities: from the birthpangs of the Messiah, and the judgment of Gehenom (hell), and from the war of Gog and Magog."
(Exodus 20:8)
"Remember the Shabbat day and keep it holy."
(Midrash Gadol U'Gedolah Chapter 8)
"Shabbat is great as it outweighs all other commandments."
(Genesis 2:3)
"G-d blessed the seventh day, and made it holy. He rested from all His work of creation that G-d performed."
(Talmud Tractate Shabbat 118b)
"Anyone who observes Shabbat according to its laws, even if he is an idolator like the generation of Enosh, is forgiven."
(Midrash Bereishit Rabba 46:9)
"If your children accept Shabbat, they'll enter the Land of Israel. And if not, they won't enter."
(Zohar Part 3, 176:2 Targum)
"The world does not exist except based on peace. When the Almighty created the world, it could not exist until he came and placed peace upon it. And what is peace? Shabbat, which is the peace of the upper and lower reality, and then the world was able to exist."
(Talmud Tractate Shabbat 119b)
"Jerusalem was only destroyed because they desecrated the Shabbat in the city."
(Talmud Tractate Brachot 57b)
"Shabbat is one sixtieth of the World to Come."