« Shabbat is the time when all worlds ascend from their place to higher levels. This is the meaning of the teaching: ‘One who delights in Shabbat receives a boundless inheritance’. » (Likutey Halakhot, Rabbi Nathan of Breslov)
Each week, Shabbat arrives like a breath amidst the rush of days. Rabbi Nathan teaches us that all worlds ascend during this sacred time — it is not merely a pause, but an elevation. Everything rises a level: souls, prayers, even matter that has been sanctified through rest.
To “delight in Shabbat” means to truly enter that elevation — to step away from doing and dwell in being, to savor a peace that doesn’t come from within, but from above. And that spiritual delight leaves a lasting imprint: a boundless inheritance. Not a material possession, but an inner expansion — a space in the soul that doesn’t fade when Shabbat ends.
Shabbat is a taste of the World to Come. To honor it is to begin living, even in this world, a fragment of eternity.
