Remember The Sabbath

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🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Setting aside of day of rest each week was a revolutionary concept when it was first introduced as the Fourth Commandment. But this commandment does more: it extends that day of rest to slaves and animals, and thus set in motion the slow process of ending slavery, and the compassionate treatment of animals. As Dennis Prager explains, the power of the Fourth Commandment to change your life is no less real today than it was for our ancient ancestors. Just ask the spouse of a workaholic how she would feel if her husband took off a day each week to spend with family and friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Many people who revere the Ten Commandments don't think that the Fourth is particularly
0:06.7	important, let alone binding.
0:10.6	Once you understand it, however, you will recognize how life-changing, even world-changing,
0:17.1	the Sabbath Commandment is, and you will begin to appreciate how relevant it is to your
0:22.9	own life.
0:24.6	The Fourth Commandment reads, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
0:30.4	Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord
0:35.9	your God.
0:37.4	On it you shall not do any work, neither you nor your son or daughter nor your male
0:42.8	or female servant nor your animals nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
0:50.5	Why is this so important?
0:52.4	First, perhaps more than any other commandment it elevated the human being.
0:59.6	How so?
1:01.1	For nearly all of human history life consisted overwhelmingly of work and effect humans
1:08.1	were beasts of burden.
1:10.5	This commandment and only this commandment changed all that by insisting that people cease
1:16.2	working one day out of seven.
1:19.8	Second, more than any other commandment the Sabbath they reminds people that they are
1:26.3	meant to be free.
1:29.3	As the second version of the commandment, the one summarized by Moses in the Book of
1:33.2	Deuteronomy states, remember that you were slaves in Egypt.
1:37.7	In other words, remember that slaves cannot have a Sabbath.
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