{"id":12765,"date":"2018-07-06T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2018-07-06T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:39:08","slug":"shabbat-a-day-to-seek-elohim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/shabbat-a-day-to-seek-elohim\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat\u2014A Day  to Seek Elohim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Numbers 28:9, <i>On the Sabbath day. <\/i><\/b>Every Sabbath YHVH required double sacrifices to be offered. This being a foundational principle, shouldn\u2019t we spend more time seeking him on Shabbat? What types of activities should fill our Sabbath time that are of a devotional, worshipful nature?<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t all of our Sabbath-day activities somehow point to YHVH, and in some way strengthen our walk with and ties to our Creator, and our ties to others who are of the household of faith?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget an important truth: Keeping Torah is not about <i>bondage<\/i> (to a legalistic set of dos and don\u2019ts); it\u2019s a vehicle to promote <i>bonding<\/i> (building loving relationship between man and his Creator, between man and his fellow man).<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Shabbat\u2014A Day  to Seek Elohim',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/shabbat-a-day-to-seek-elohim\/',contentID: 'post-12765',suggestTags: 'Numbers,Sabbath,Shabbat',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers 28:9, On the Sabbath day. 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