Jon Collins

And now you're having the restorative experience of having stopped.

Then you are resting and you're settling and you're enjoying.

Shabbat is rest.

you stop so that you are now settling down.

Resting is about having settled, you enjoy something.

So they work together.

So why is it that you work for six days and then Shabbat on the seventh?

Because Yahweh worked for six days and then Noach on the seventh.

And this is referring to Genesis 1.

Yes, and which the last line of the command, therefore Yahweh blessed the day of Shabbat

And he made it holy, which links you back all the way up to the first line, which is remember the day of Shabbat to treat it as holy.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's think about this.

So the seven-day creation narrative is clearly being hyperlinked here.

It opens with God speaking, but then there's two verbs that God...

is the subject of in the seven-day narrative.

It's either bara, which is to create, which only God is ever the actor of the verb bara in the Hebrew Bible.

A human never bras.

but God does.

But bara essentially means God produces something that has no precedent.