SATURDAY PRAYER: HOCHMA- GRACE FOR THE FIRST SHABBAT MEAL
READING: SUNSET FRIDAY
A SABBATH OF SOLEMN REST IN THE SEVENTH YEAR
-by Rav Michael Laitman
When the desires of the person completely transform to be similar to the Light in quantity and quality, he then feels that the Light is found within him.
In fact, the Light was always in him, except now the person begins to feel it because he prepared his senses, his understanding, for this. He sees that even before then, he was in the world of the Creator, and that everything was filled with Light, “there is none else besides Him,” but now he feels it and discovers it. This is the seventh millenium.
So Shabbat is called a sacred day because it is the sum of all of the immense work that a person passes through to attain the Creator, to discover Him within himself.