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Sabbath
Rabbi Yehudah ben Shomeyr
· Gen. 2:1-3
· Exd. 20:8-11
· Lev. 23:1-3: The beginning of the High Holy Day litany
· SABBATH: Friday sundown to Saturday sundown
· SABBATH = To Rest
· God gave names to the days of the week in Genesis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat
· “Well Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday, that’s why we go to church on Sunday and keep Sunday instead of Saturday, to commemorate the resurrection.” I do not know who made that up, but Yeshua rose on Saturday, the true Sabbath. John 20:1 says that Mary Magdalene came to the tomb “early, when it was still dark” when the “first of the week cometh” that would be Saturday night sundown. Remember we Jews reckon a day as from sunset to sunset. Therefore, this would mean Yeshua rose sometime on Saturday.
· Havdallah: Nowhere in the Renewed Covenant did God or Messiah say to change Sabbath to Sunday. You may be wondering, “Well doesn’t it say in Acts 20:7 that they met on the first day of the week? Well, of course it does. We Jews end the Sabbath and usher in a new week by holding a service called the Havdalah service on Saturday night right before sunset. This has been our way for thousands of years. Matt. 28:1, Acts. 20:7
· Sunday Worship; Pagan: Sunday worship has its roots in paganism, the worship of the sun god. Ezekiel 8:16-18, actually deals with the ancient “Easter” sunrise service, and sun worship. A pagan act in ADONAI’s Temple of all places! What blasphemy!
· Is it wrong to worship God on Sunday? No, we can and should worship Him every day of the week. Just do not go worshiping Elohim on Sunday and call it, or pass it off as the Sabbath.
QUOTES:
Roman Catholic: “But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed., p.174.
“Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
“Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927), pg. 136.
Anglican/Episcopal: “We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the Catholic Church.” Bishop Seymore, Why We Keep Sunday.
Baptist: “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath Day, but that Sabbath Day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week… Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament absolutely not.
“To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during the three years’ intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question… never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was initiated.
“Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history… But what a pity it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!” Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers’ conference, Nov. 13, 1893, reported in New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.
Congregationalist: “…The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called the Sabbath.” Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended (1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, pg. 258.
Lutheran: “The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of Sabbath to Sunday.” Dr. Augustus Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church Henery John Rose, tr. (1843), pg. 186.
“… churches err in their teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect.” John Theodore Muller, Sabbath or Sunday, pp. 15, 16.
Methodist: “… there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day (Sunday), or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day (Sunday).” Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate, July 2, 1942, p. 26
Presbyterian: “The Sabbath is a part of the Decalogue – the Ten Commandments. This alone forever settles the question as to the perpetuity of the institution… Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand… The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath.” T.C. Blake, DD., Theology Condensed, pp. 474, 475.
First Fruits of Zion : “It is all too common to take a rather sloppy attitude about matters of faith and observance. It is often said, “It doesn’t matter which day we keep the Sabbath, as long as we keep ‘a Sabbath.’” Or someone might say, “Our seder isn’t on the seder night, but at least we are doing a seder.” This kind of loose and casual attitude toward God’s commandments is sometimes misconstrued as being more ‘spiritual’ in that it is more concerned with the intent of the law then with the actual details. But this is arrogance in the extreme. Who are we to determine the intent of God’s laws? Who are we to disregard the specific details of His commandments on the basis that we deem them irrelevant? Should we expect Him to bend His schedule to meet ours? If we can make the appointment whenever it is convenient for us, then it is really not God’s appointed time.”
SHABBAT: To Rest
· 39 Rabbinic Prohibitions
· Simple: No work, No occupational/manual labor
· Life over Law: Police, Fire, Rescue, Military, and Medical: Okay to work, try to have a rotating schedule so you can get most Sabbaths off.
· No business of money changing hands: No shopping or eating out, do not make others work.
· Make all preparations beforehand: Cleaning, Preparation of food, etc.
· Dress Best: People and Table: Find clothes and fine dinnerware.
THE TABLE:
· Two candles: Lit BEFORE SABBATH (Ex.35:3): Remember (Exd. 20:8) and Observe (Deut. 5:12)
· It is usually the women’s responsibility to light the Sabbath candles, but if no women are present, it is permitted for a man to light them. According to the Talmud (Shabbat 31b) since it was the woman who caused mankind’s downfall by eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge offered by the serpent, thus causing the spiritual light in this world to dim, therefore it is the woman’s duty to light the Sabbath candles.
Rabbi Yehudah ben Shomeyr
· Gen. 2:1-3
· Exd. 20:8-11
· Lev. 23:1-3: The beginning of the High Holy Day litany
· SABBATH: Friday sundown to Saturday sundown
· SABBATH = To Rest
· God gave names to the days of the week in Genesis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat
· “Well Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday, that’s why we go to church on Sunday and keep Sunday instead of Saturday, to commemorate the resurrection.” I do not know who made that up, but Yeshua rose on Saturday, the true Sabbath. John 20:1 says that Mary Magdalene came to the tomb “early, when it was still dark” when the “first of the week cometh” that would be Saturday night sundown. Remember we Jews reckon a day as from sunset to sunset. Therefore, this would mean Yeshua rose sometime on Saturday.
· Havdallah: Nowhere in the Renewed Covenant did God or Messiah say to change Sabbath to Sunday. You may be wondering, “Well doesn’t it say in Acts 20:7 that they met on the first day of the week? Well, of course it does. We Jews end the Sabbath and usher in a new week by holding a service called the Havdalah service on Saturday night right before sunset. This has been our way for thousands of years. Matt. 28:1, Acts. 20:7
· Sunday Worship; Pagan: Sunday worship has its roots in paganism, the worship of the sun god. Ezekiel 8:16-18, actually deals with the ancient “Easter” sunrise service, and sun worship. A pagan act in ADONAI’s Temple of all places! What blasphemy!
· Is it wrong to worship God on Sunday? No, we can and should worship Him every day of the week. Just do not go worshiping Elohim on Sunday and call it, or pass it off as the Sabbath.
QUOTES:
Roman Catholic: “But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed., p.174.
“Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
“Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927), pg. 136.
Anglican/Episcopal: “We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the Catholic Church.” Bishop Seymore, Why We Keep Sunday.
Baptist: “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath Day, but that Sabbath Day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week… Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament absolutely not.
“To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during the three years’ intercourse with His disciples, often conversing with them upon the Sabbath question… never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was initiated.
“Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history… But what a pity it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!” Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers’ conference, Nov. 13, 1893, reported in New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.
Congregationalist: “…The Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called the Sabbath.” Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended (1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, pg. 258.
Lutheran: “The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of Sabbath to Sunday.” Dr. Augustus Neander, The History of the Christian Religion and Church Henery John Rose, tr. (1843), pg. 186.
“… churches err in their teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect.” John Theodore Muller, Sabbath or Sunday, pp. 15, 16.
Methodist: “… there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day (Sunday), or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day (Sunday).” Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate, July 2, 1942, p. 26
Presbyterian: “The Sabbath is a part of the Decalogue – the Ten Commandments. This alone forever settles the question as to the perpetuity of the institution… Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand… The teaching of Christ confirms the perpetuity of the Sabbath.” T.C. Blake, DD., Theology Condensed, pp. 474, 475.
First Fruits of Zion : “It is all too common to take a rather sloppy attitude about matters of faith and observance. It is often said, “It doesn’t matter which day we keep the Sabbath, as long as we keep ‘a Sabbath.’” Or someone might say, “Our seder isn’t on the seder night, but at least we are doing a seder.” This kind of loose and casual attitude toward God’s commandments is sometimes misconstrued as being more ‘spiritual’ in that it is more concerned with the intent of the law then with the actual details. But this is arrogance in the extreme. Who are we to determine the intent of God’s laws? Who are we to disregard the specific details of His commandments on the basis that we deem them irrelevant? Should we expect Him to bend His schedule to meet ours? If we can make the appointment whenever it is convenient for us, then it is really not God’s appointed time.”
SHABBAT: To Rest
· 39 Rabbinic Prohibitions
· Simple: No work, No occupational/manual labor
· Life over Law: Police, Fire, Rescue, Military, and Medical: Okay to work, try to have a rotating schedule so you can get most Sabbaths off.
· No business of money changing hands: No shopping or eating out, do not make others work.
· Make all preparations beforehand: Cleaning, Preparation of food, etc.
· Dress Best: People and Table: Find clothes and fine dinnerware.
THE TABLE:
· Two candles: Lit BEFORE SABBATH (Ex.35:3): Remember (Exd. 20:8) and Observe (Deut. 5:12)
· It is usually the women’s responsibility to light the Sabbath candles, but if no women are present, it is permitted for a man to light them. According to the Talmud (Shabbat 31b) since it was the woman who caused mankind’s downfall by eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge offered by the serpent, thus causing the spiritual light in this world to dim, therefore it is the woman’s duty to light the Sabbath candles.