The Sabbath as Revelation of the World of Soul and the World-to-Come
The Sabbath is similar to the holiness of the World-to-Come, and the divine intention was to give us the holiness of Sabbath in order to reveal to us that the main dwelling of man is not in this world, because in this world he is a stranger . . . but his main [dwelling] is in the world of souls, the World-to-Come. This is the reason why he ceases…
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