What is Shabbat?

What is Shabbat?

It’s Saturday, the seventh day of the week. It is what the Jews call "Shabbat," pronounced "Shah-bot'." It means "rest" and can be traced back to Genesis 2:1-3, which says, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested (Shabbat) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested (Shabbat) from all His work which God had created and made."

The word "rested" means God stopped creating because, "Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

The "sixth day" was the last day God created anything because everything He made was completely perfect. Why? Because He is eternally holy and thus impossible for Him to do anything wrong - “everything that He had made…indeed it was very good.”

What a mighty God we serve!