The Greatest Gift You Jews Gave Us

The greatest gift we can give people is to give them the chance to create. This is the one gift that turns the recipient into a giver. Almost every generation contributed something to the heritage of shabat, if only a new song or even a new tune for old words. Not by accident do we speak of making shabers. The jewish people didn't create the day's holiness, but they did co create its hadrat kodesh its sacred beauty. It was god who, at the dawn of time, made the seventh day holy, but it was the sages who, making a fence round the law,. added many laws, customs and regulations to protect and