PAYING RESPECT Sen. Lieberman and then presidential candidate John McCain visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, March 2008.


Lieberman suggests many miss the deeper meaning of the Sabbath because they only read its fi rst ren- dering in Exodus. The command-


in the land of Egypt before their deliverance, “therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.”


I’ve had to write this book on the Sabbath may be one of the most signi cant opportunities I’ve had in my lifetime.


“ I feel the opportunity that


ment is delivered a second time, however, in Deuteronomy 5:15. In Deuteronomy, God reminds his people that they once were slaves


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That verse, Lieberman says, suggests that observing the Sabbath after six days of hard work gives people a chance to rise above their circumstances and refl ect on the greater meaning of their own destiny. Lieberman


sees the


Sabbath, then, as part of God’s ongoing plan for liberation. “God not only created, but remained prepared to re-engage in history,” he says. “But ultimately we,


in accepting God and God’s law, the Commandments, have declared ourselves to be partners in realizing the destiny, and the improvement of the human race in some sense, in the most ideal and idealistic terms, to complete God’s creation, to perfect the world.”


Lieberman relates to Newsmax that he is particularly fond of the way Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York explained it.


“He quotes John Paul the


Second, and I paraphrase here,” says Lieberman. “Pope John Paul II said: ‘How can we expect to work with God on six days of the week, if we don’t rest with God on the seventh?’”


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