The shomer Shabbos is able to look at the life they have been blessed with and say, “It’s a beautiful world!”
IT’Sa beautiful world!
Summertime opens our eyes to the majesty in Hashem’s creations. The blue skies and lush greenery shout, “Mah rabu maasecha, Hashem — How wonderful are Your creations, Hashem.”
Yet a sparkling dome sitting on our holiest site mocks us and challenges our happiness as a people. Our people’s tenacity, the fact that we have the DNA of an am keshei oref, was again glaringly obvious as another Chodesh Av passed, and we once again mourned the destruction of Yerushalayim. We still stubbornly cling to hope and happiness despite everything.
The pesukim in Bereishis (2:1-2) that tell us about the world’s first Shabbos say, “Vayechulu haShamayim v’haaretz v’chol tzeva’am. Vayechal Elokim bayom hashevii melachto asher asah, vayishbos bayom hashevii mikol melachto asher asah — Now the Heavens and the Earth and all their hosts were completed. And on the Seventh Day Hashem completed all the work He had done, and He rested on the Seventh Day from all that He had done.” (Bereishis 2:1-2)
In Pachad Yitzchok Shabbos, Rav Yitzchok Hutner points out that many have asked, “What does it mean that Hashem rested on the Seventh Day? Does Hashem get tired?”
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