Early on, I experienced something extraordinary and unusual in my Sabbath-keeping. When I skipped a Sabbath, my week would go by in the blink of an eye, and I would be far less productive. It seems counterintuitive: the more days I had to work, the less I accomplished. But when I did Sabbath, it was as though God stretched my time. I once heard that some Jewish mystics believed that when we take a day of rest, as a gift, God literally stretches our time on the six days we do not work. I don’t know exactly how it works, but I can say from experience that it was almost as though God was
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