Yitro: Creation & Exodus – two paradigms for connecting with Hashem
Two very different reasons are given for keeping shabbat. In Parshat Yitro, in the Ten Commandments, the fourth commandment is to keep shabbat. And a reason is given (Shemot 20:11): “Ki sheshet yamim asah Hashem et hashamayim v’et haaretz.” – “For Hashem created the world in six days and then …