ספר בראשית

Man, the Creator’s most advanced creature, is able to be active not only in the physical but even in ‎more spiritually refined parts of the universe. Nonetheless, he gradually grows further and further ‎apart from his origin, the “infinite,” pure spirituality that is G’d. The expression ‎שבת‎, used in our ‎paragraph, describes that G’d Himself used the Sabbath to “retrace” His steps back to the origin of ‎creation. ‎It is the function of the Sabbath to help man to similarly emulate G’d by using the Sabbath to ‎retrace the physical material concerns that preoccupied him during the preceding six days, and to ‎return to the spiritual origin of his soul and be inspired to the extent that he sees in the actions he ‎performed during the weekdays something that has been suffused with the loftiest spiritual ‎values.‎ [In this respect the Sabbath is a day that completes a cycle and prevents us from losing contact ‎with our origins. Ed.] ‎