Posted on 11/08/2019 11:19:48 AM PST by Jagermonster
As Laura Nash and her husband raised their sons, they put a high value on family Sabbath traditions. Part 5 in a series looking at the Ten Commandments through modern lives.The worshippers at Beth Judah Temple could be family. They arrive at dusk on a brisk autumn Friday with leisurely hugs, hellos, and a little something for the dinner table. It’s Shabbat – the Jewish Sabbath – at Laura Nash’s small jewel of a synagogue, nestled in a tired part of this beach town, where worshippers have gathered for more than a century. Dr. Nash and her husband, Jack Greenberg, who live in central New Jersey, often begin Shabbat here when visiting their vacation home nearby.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the
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Okay if you’re Jewish.
It’s always okay to obey the Ten Commandments.
You cannot. In either thought, word, or deed you’d blow it. Besides, it’s not the Ten Commandments - it’s nine with a statement; plus the Ten are only a part of the full commandments of G-d to the Jews - there are over six hundred and if you blow one, you’ve blown them all. That’s what Yeshua did on the Cross - when He said “It is finished” He was saying He fulfilled all the commandments of G-d.
Love it. Iron man and electric funeral. :D
This woman undoubtedly went through a Reform “conversion” which means she is still a non-Jew. She is “observing” a parody of authentic Judaism—Reform “judaism”—so any references to ritual observation here should be viewed as Jewish-like, not Jewish. It is interesting that the Monitor chose a Reform family whose wife almost certainly did not undergo a truly kosher authentic conversion and who attends a Reform institution. If they wanted to write a story about how the Sabbath affords busy people a sanctioned relief from their harried lives, why didn’t they interview an equally professionally accomplished Orthodox woman? I think the story would have been ever so much more meaningful, as the much more complete cessation of worldly matters presents a far greater contrast between the secular work week and the holy Sabbath.
When we were first married my wife and I decided that by not spending money on the Sabbath it would help us to not cause others to work.
It helps as a reminder when I “just have to have” something right now.
I’m Christian, my wife is Jewish Christian.
You are correct. We all fall short, we all sin.
However, my wife and I light sabbath candles and say the prayers every Friday evening.
Being human, it seems like we need something, some kind of tradition or procedure on this earth to do.
One thing I really love about Jewish Christians, they keep some of the things they always had, some of the most beautiful things that express their love and respect for the Almighty.
Like you, not writing out His name. Quite beautiful.
He was saying man was redeemed with His death. Man’s iron clad no way out death was ended there. “It is finished.”
He was not saying all laws ceased. Ceremonial sacrificial laws pointing to a sacrificial lamb were no longer needed.
There may have and probably were many laws that pertained to the Children of Israel due to their 40 year trek through the wilderness, concerning things from hygiene and social mores relating to the groups exposure to the ill effects of some personal activity.
Name one other thing out of the Ten Commandments that we are not to observe now? If the nine are to be observed, why not the one dealing with the Sabbath?
Jesus died and was buried before sundown on Friday. He arose after the Sabbath was over.
Seems to me He made it pretty clear the fourth commandment Sabbath was still an important commandment.
At no time are we specifically told never to follow the Ten Commandments, particularly the fourth pursuant to this discussion.
And again, the Ten Commandments are only part of the complete commandments of G-d.
The first line of the Ten Commandments is a statement: "I Am the Lord Thy G-d" which is a statement then follows Thou shalt not etc, etc.
I’m in church on Sundays. I don’t think God minds which day of the week we dedicate to Him.
Sorry, but you lost me when you stated the Ten Commandments written with God’s own finger are the same as any other.
As for the number of commandments, I’m not inclined to nit pick about them. If it’s important for you to think there were only nine and toss that in the mix every time the topic comes up, go for it. You’ll see a lot of yawning.
I hate to break it to you, but if you are a Christian, your faith goes back to the Ten Commandments. It was not just for the Jews. What do you think Paul was all about, spreading the word to the Gentiles?
The official sabbath change did not take place until 321ad.
It was set by a man, not God.
I’m in church in my mind every day - don’t have to go to a building but I do any to be with like minded people.
This is all I have to say on the matter. Have a Nice Day.
I don’t want to get into that discussion directly, but I will provide food for thought.
I believe that it is pretty clear in the Garden of Eden what God expected of man related to the sabbath. He blessed the Seventh day and sanctified it. No other day was blessed by God as a pairing between him and man.
At the cross Christ died and was buried prior to sundown when the sabbath started. He awoke after the sabbath had ended.
Here thousands of years apart, the sabbath was still something to be reckoned with.
God requested a sacrifice of an animal from Able and Cain to point forward to the Sacrificial Lamb, who would purchase the souls of humans back from Satan. Cain brought fruit to sacrifice, and God would not accept it. Cain wound up killing able out of jealousy.
Man was urged to separate from his parents and couple up with a woman. Now men couple with men and women couple with women. Should we merely say that God doesn’t really care any longer about that sort of thing?
You see, Satan is the great deceiver. If he can’t get you to openly forsake God, he’ll try to bend the rules, so that you can still claim to yourself that you are adhering to God’s command. It’s up to you how you come down on that.
I’m not going to make any claims about what God will judge people by. It’s up to each of us to determine that for ourselves, after due diligence.
You are not off base with common orthodoxy these days. What you stated is commonly held to be true.
Take care.
We print calendars that put Sunday as the first day of the week, but in practice we begin our week on Monday, and (also) call Sunday the second day of the weekend, meaning that for all practical purposes we work from Monday to either Friday or Saturday, then take Sunday off, resting on the seventh day of our week. How we handle Sunday then becomes the issue.
Or Seventh Day Adventist
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