The Sabbath is a sort of testament against slavery in a world that cannot image an economy without slavery. Discuss Heschel's idea about the difference between the conquest of time and the conquest of space. The Bible is more concerned with time than with space, with history than with geography. Why do people not want to observe the Sabbath. Space can be dominated and controlled and become property.
Time is to be shared.
Already in the ancient sources, the Sabbath is referred to as a 'mystery' of God's. as a special expression of divine grace for the people of Israel. In the mystical tradition, the 'mystery' of the Sabbath is profounder yet, symbolic of ultimate divine harmonies and cosmic restoration. The Christian polemic against some of the attitudes toward Sabbath observance and the shift from Sabbath to Sunday may lead the reader to misunderstand the nature of the Sabbath and to over look the importance of the Sabbath to the New Testament vision of the Kingdom. The Sabbath is a taste of the world to come. What does rest have to do with peace other than the notion of peace as tranquility.