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He Rested and Relaxed

By YN

In the Amidah of Minchah on Shabbos: "A menuchoh of love and nedovoh, a menuchoh of emes and emunah. ... A wholesome menuchoh that You desire, so that your children will recognize and know that their menuchoh is from You, and through their menuchoh they will sanctify Your Name."

HaRav Avrohom Yitzchok Barzel zt"l said that this refers to the two parts of menuchoh to which Rashi in our parsha (Ki Siso) refers: And on the Seventh day he rested and relaxed. This refers to a menuchoh that is solid and not temporary which is referred to as "a menuchoh of love..." and also a menuchoh that comes from preserving the kedushoh and sanctifying His Name: "...and through their menuchoh they will sanctify Your Name."

We can also explain that it instead refers to the earlier posuk: Six days you shall do your work and on the seventh day rest. One should be conscious throughout the six days that he will rest on the seventh. If one is too deeply involved in his work, he cannot fully disengage from it on Shabbos. But on Shabbos one should not only take a break from work but completely disengage from it. This can only be done of one works all the time with the awareness that all his work is with bitachon that everything is really from Hashem all the time, and thereby he can without penalty or concern totally disengage from his work on Shabbos and rest fully.

 

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