To start with, God blessed the animal kingdom with an invocation: “Be fruitful and multiply.”17 Then he blessed humanity the same way: “Be fruitful and multiply.”18 And then God blessed the Sabbath. Wait, so God blessed animals, humans, and then…a day? Mmm. What does that mean? It means that the Sabbath—just like an animal or a human being—has the life-giving capacity to procreate. To fill the world up with more life.
