Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work (Exodus 20:8).

Is it possible for a human being to do all his work in six days?

Does not our work always remain incomplete?

What the verse means to convey is: Rest on the Sabbath as if all your work were done.

Another interpretation: Rest even from the thought of labor.

~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

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