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It’s the second time in a few days that Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast has come up in my studies. This week, it came up as I was studying about rest and Sabbath. Sabbath became absolutely crucial to the Jewish people when they had no Tabernacle. It became a feast day of rest on the…

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The words jumped off the page. You begin to understand rest when your mind settles in your heart. In the Jesus tradition, prayer can be a practice of simply being in the presence of God, allowing the mind to rest in the heart. This can help us begin to understand one aspect of Sabbath time:…

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“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. For six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or…

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