141: Why We Started Taking A Sabbath

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our Sabbath rest has been such a blessing in our home we're excited to share why we started taking one, what that looks like for our family, what is "allowed" and not "allowed" and how to practically rest with four toddlers and the mundane tasks of a household pausing for 24 hours!

We'll do a Q&A at the end as to why we chose Saturday as our Sabbath day instead of Sunday, and whether or not we plan on celebrating other Jewish holidays.

Side note: When I mentioned "communion" in this episode it was referring to the special bread and wine the Jewish community uses for their Shabbat dinners reminding me of communion in Christian services. Clearly, it's not communion. :)

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0:00.0	So today we get to talk about the Sabbath and specifically why Elisha and I started keeping
0:05.5	the Sabbath in our home.
0:07.6	And I asked you guys for your questions on Instagram because we were getting a lot of
0:10.9	feedback on it and so today we're going to kind of go through a flow of why we started
0:15.3	keeping the Sabbath, what is and isn't allowed in quotes in our home because that was a
0:22.1	question that got asked a lot.
0:23.8	How that practically looks, like how does rest look practically with four little children
0:27.8	running around and why we chose to do this on Saturday instead of Sunday.
0:33.2	And then at the end we'll just be going through a little quick Q&A and if we didn't touch
0:38.1	on anything that you guys already asked on Instagram.
0:41.4	So I'm excited to dive in.
0:42.6	If you guys enjoyed this episode, if you would give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the
0:47.7	YouTube channel or subscribe to wherever you're listening to this, whether it's on iTunes
0:51.9	or Spotify, that would be awesome and we're going to dive right in.
0:57.4	Let's do it.
0:58.4	The now that we're a family, you know what is true right now is that I feel more rested
1:12.4	and rejuvenated than I did at this time two weeks ago.
1:16.8	And there's a very specific reason as to why I think that is.
1:22.0	There's been a big shift in our house with us instituting the Sabbath.
1:27.3	Yeah, you said something in the intro that I'm curious this, I don't know if it matters
1:31.9	too very much.
1:32.9	I think it matters a little bit to me.
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