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they are all the first day or the second day "to the Sabbath" - the Sabbath is the goal toward which time itself moves.

The Sabbath is a day of transformation. Man is nature's slave six days a week. But on the seventh day he was to be free of this committment, so that he might catch a glimpse of the freedom which is the essence of God's nature.

I liked his interpretation of the auto - which makes the prohibition against riding not obsolete but all the more compelling, for the automobile only increases the dynamism of travel. The deeper significance of spending one day within a limited area is that man shall find meaning to his existence where he is - and not where he can escape to. Similarly, too, the prohibition against fire was not with respect to its use but rather with respect to its creation & its creative power. To make the Sabbath symbolic of perfect & inimitable 'being,' the Law did not permit the use on the Sabbath of



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anything that did not exist before the Sabbath.

- The human being as part of nature. One feels that here. Like healthy unquestioning animals, they sit in the sun & beneath the trees - a part of the nature surrounding them. Like trees themselves, the children, the flowers.

To come back to the thought of the Sabbath. When I think of mama & her beautiful, innocent, childlike soul - her dedication to the spiritual quest of man - and papa as well - his ideals - every day is & was Shabbos - at home. I hope it will always be with me, as well, Shabbos in spirit. 

Monday Jan. 17th -

AM - Lucy - posed
After lunch - portrait of Dorothy & children. 
4.30 - To Hacohens - He was ill with flu, in bed. Charming, short visit - will see them tomorrow aft. to get