How can keeping Shabbat forgive all transgressions? Even the grave transgression of idol worship? Only by keeping (Shamor) from doing forbidden acts on Shabbat, which is the lower level of Shabbat being “Zachor” (remembering)is the higher level it would clean us up.It takes that if we would sleep for the whole 25 hours of Shabbat, this would be enough to clean all our transgressions.
Shabbat is a day of the soul. If a person is not able to experience a complete delight of the soul, then when he comes to the world to come he won’t be able to delight in the radiance of that world.
Shabbat is a taste of the world to come, so when a person serves H”S on Shabbat by abstaining of work and delighting he in a sense is as if he went out of this world and into the world to come. The Neshama has such a delight in the closeness it feels to G-d during Shabbat, that all it wants is to go back to its source. This is why, when Shabbat ends one feels a little down and it’s hard to come back to the mundane.
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