In this unique first episode, I decided, after months of writing (starting and stopping), to share a different approach on the biblical Sabbath.
As I say here a few times, I believe the Sabbath comes directly from the eternal heart of God himself. Its nature is as eternal as God himself. As I point out in a previous episode and from Abraham Heschel's book, The Sabbath, eternity is wrapped up in the sacred Sabbath that is brought into human time.
I end this version of the story of the Sabbath with the exile of the Hebrew people. The next installment will pick up there, leading into how the Sabbath became what it was at the time of Jesus. Hint: it's not what God originally intended and created!