Shabbat-Way To Nature-Closeness-Achievement

Time now is Saturday night, official start of the Jewish week. Stars have emerged in the skies to start clock-ticking, worldly temporal time-keeping, profanity, everydayness...regularity, work. In our lives we tend as humans to control much. Shabbat by contrast is a time to let go and allow the body to folow its own natural rhythms. Without effort they bring us in touch with eternal and earthly sources. This beauty and sensitivity becomes more and more necessary, profound with each passing second in this time of so much crammed into every tiny crevice of our individual and collective consciounesses. Memories of computer and human brains surge to over-capacity, need to be reduced in every possible way. Setting aside one seventh of the week to reduce to essence our very selves is doing a favour for more than only oneself; this space of quietude and relative inactivity becomes a service which flows out first to those closest and sound wave by sound wave, farthest from the practitioner of the ancient, sacred, holy practice of Shabbat.