SATURDAY PRAYER: HOD – GRACE FOR THE FIRST SHABBAT MEAL
READING: SUNSET FRIDAY
A SABBATH OF SOLEMN REST IN THE SEVENTH YEAR
-by Rav Michael Laitman
And this is called the seventh year, which is the year of solemn rest. Therefore, this is called Shabbat (the Sabbath), the freedom and cessation from work. But actually there is very strong inner work, only it is directed in the opposite direction as I nullify myself and don’t do anything, making it possible for the Creator to act.
At the same time, I am together with Him in full accord and unity with Him. I work, but my work is summed up in synchronized action with the Creator, and this is very complicated and difficult.
So I must prepare myself for rest so that all of the density of the ego, the entire six years during which I corrected it, will bring me to the seventh year, the year of solemn rest, the year of the Shmittah (letting go).