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The power of the Sabbath

PARSHAH VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI Exodus 35:1-40:38
By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
What is the point of repeating the command to observe the Sabbath, when we previously received this law as the fourth of the Ten Commandments? Moreover, barely five chapters ago, we heard G-d exhorting Moses: “But you must observe My Sabbaths as a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever.” Why this repetition?

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