This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host

Brent Billings. Today I am with L. Grover Frickick to keep Shabbat with Josh Bosset.

Welcome everybody. Shalom, you're here, you're listening to the Beama podcast and we are going to start this brand new series from a little old me

with a quote I'm probably going to be doing this every episode just to just to set the the vibe My goal for this series, this Sabbath series, is on one hand to give everyone

maybe some more practical handles on Shabbat to talk about how we actually live it out in our context.

But on a deeper level, what I really want, what I really hope happens, is that you all out there learn to really fall in love with

Shabbat.

Because once you fall in love, once you see what's really there in Chabad, you can find it wherever.

You can find a way to get there, to connect with it, to practice it.

The spirit makes all kinds of ways. So to kind of till the soil of our hearts, I think

there's no better voice to get us in that head space to give us a taste of

Chabat then to hear a little quote from Abraham Joshua Heshle. There is none

other. None other and I believe most of the quotes I'll be doing are probably from his book, The Sabbath.

It's a banger.

It is a banger.

And this first one will be very appropriate for us talking about how to keep Sabbath.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own, but to give, not to control, but to share,

not to subdue, but to be in accord.

And what I like about this quote and what I hope it will bring us into is thinking about the first layer of the Sabbath, this

holy day that God gave us in that it is set apart. It is different from the other days of the week and this isn't just because you know we don't work on the Sabbath or we take a day of rest, you know, we rest every day.

Hopefully most of us are able to rest at least a little bit every day, but there's something deeper and more profoundly different about Shabbat and that requires us to watch over it, to keep it and we're going to be looking a little deeply at some of the words surrounding Shabbat and the Commandments for Shabbat.

But before we get into that, let's just talk about this word, Shabbat.

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