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with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today I'm with Reed Dent

to join Josh Bosset in Remembering Shabbat.

Yes, Remembering Shabbat. Welcome everyone. Reed. Hello, welcome to the series.

Hello, thank you. It's very good to, it's very good to be with you and also with you, Brent.

Thank you. I like how Josh intentionally welcomes people into, you know,

because sometimes we you know we get into it and I'm like I do my intro and

then and then people are like oh blah blah blah blah blah and then it's like oh, Reed doesn't talk for five minutes.

I mean, that's probably a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's just nice to intentionally

welcome everyone in, so I appreciate that, Josh.

Yeah, I feel like I'm ready to just make a home. Yeah. Yeah exactly. So first of all this is to just center ourselves. We are digging into Chabat as a spiritual practice and we're

going to use some of the linguistics of the text to kind of maybe add some

layers to that because it's you know historically I think we get the question a lot of like how do I actually do

She about how do I practice Sabbath because we talk so much about why it's important

and because we talk so much about why it's important and I think that leaves a lot of people like how do we do this so last week we had L on the podcast and we broke down a couple words we broke down the root word of

Shabbat which is Shavat which means stillness just to to stop and that's it's a very simple word and I think that's always good to remember

for Shabbat is that at route it is very simple it's just finding stillness, slowing down, taking a breath. It's all those things.

The other thing we looked into was the word shamar, which means to watch over and guard.

And we primarily talked about, you know, how we, how we watch over our,

the holy time of shabbat. How do we stop work from getting in? How can we pull ourselves

back from just how easy it is sometimes to slide into work to get that you know see a work

email come through your phone and all of a sudden you can't get it out of your

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