A new book by Jeremy Gimpel
Shabbat For All Nations
שַׁבָּת לְכָל הָעַמִּים
Israel has guarded the seventh day for thousands of years. The commandment begins with one word — zachor, remember. For the first time, we are inviting the nations to remember it with us, and to experience it. Whether you are worn thin by a week that never ends, curious about the day God blessed at creation, or simply want your family around one unhurried table — this book shows you how to begin, this Friday.
Free PDF · by Jeremy Gimpel · From The Hills of Judea
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The problem
Every week disappears the same way.
The day never ends
"Work no longer ends when we leave the office. The boundaries that once shaped our days have dissolved into a constant stream of digital noise."
Connected, and alone
"With all the digital connectivity, more people feel more isolated than ever before."
Always doing, never being
"Instead of human beings, we should be called 'human doings'."
"A life without rest is not a life of flourishing, it is a slow forgetting of what it means to be human."
From the author
The answer is older than the problem
The seventh day was the first thing God ever called holy.
"There is nothing in nature that points to a seven day cycle, yet every culture in the world today recognizes a seven day week."
"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it."
Genesis 2:3
Remember the Day
Creation
The seventh day God blessed and sanctified.
A Moral Imperative
Commandment
The fourth commandment, worth reconsidering.
Revere the Creator
Witness
A weekly testimony that the God of Israel is Lord of time.
Rehearse the Hope
Prophecy
A rehearsal for the world to come.
How to begin
Three steps. One day a week.
Shabbat runs from sunset Friday to nightfall Saturday. You do not need Hebrew, a synagogue, or anything you don't already have at home — a table, a couple of candles, bread, and the people you love. The book walks you through the evening line by line.
1
Download the book
Free PDF, read in an evening. Forty-eight pages on where Shabbat comes from, why it was commanded, and exactly how to keep one. It begins at the very beginning.
2
Choose one Shabbat
"Light the candles. Put away the devices. Gather your family." Candle lighting, Kiddush, blessing your children, breaking challah, Havdalah — every blessing in Hebrew, transliteration and English.
3
Keep three in a row
Not perfectly, and not under pressure. "Many people try Shabbat once and find it meaningful. But when Shabbat becomes a rhythm, it becomes transformational."
What changes
Six days you build the world.
On the seventh, you live in it.
The phone goes in a drawer. The table fills. The meal has no end time, because nothing more important is happening anywhere else.
You will notice it first in your children. They will begin asking when it starts. Then in your marriage, where no conversation is rushed. Then in yourself on Monday morning — returned, and not merely rested. This is what it means to rehearse the world to come: one day lived the way it is meant to be, until the other six begin to change shape.
From the book
"Shabbat is not merely a pause from life. It is a return to life."
"When screens go dark, faces come into focus."
"Shabbat is not only rest from work. It is rest from fear. Rest from striving."
Start this Friday.
Download your copy and begin.
Free PDF · by Jeremy Gimpel · From The Hills of Judea
After the book
"The journey is not meant to be walked alone."
The Land of Israel Network is a global community of families from many countries and cultures who gather each week to learn Torah together, connect to the Land of Israel, and build a life guided by the Bible. It is the community this book came out of.
