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Great song, from a great album, from a great band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTpjrzas5E

🤘 #partyon #wacken2026 #sabbath

Visiting Black Sabbath landmarks in Birmingham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHChym8JHes

#blacksabbath #sabbath #metal #heavymetal #music

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. - (Susan L. Taylor)

#leadership #Sabbath #rest

The Walnut Tree in Benevento by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti

After a week off we’re BACK with a bit of art we love. It’s by the Italian artist and architect Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti (1764-1831) and goes by the name of the Walnut Tree in Benevento.

There’s not a huge amount of information about Bagetti online. Asides from a Wikipedia page about him, there’s generally very little information other than a batch of his paintings available to gawp at. Which we duly did, as this guy was a phenomenal painter.

Bagetti’s Paintings: The Walnut Tree in Benevento and Other Landscapes

There it is. Have a click on the image and you’ll get a closer look at the thing.

It was immediately striking for us when we first saw it, that giant, alien thing hovering over a tree like there’s an alien abduction going on. Like this bit here.

It’s so intricately detailed it’s like a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Bagetti’s work here is a watercolour, a style that usually evokes visions of pretty clouds, flowers, and happy sunny days.

But this work has an otherworldly threat about it. It’s beautiful, yet it’s also like something terrifying is happening beyond mere human understanding. How the occult has taken over and witches are leading a sabbath around an innocent tree, bewitching it as freaks and weirdos dance around the eerily lit scene.

Like a giant chandelier swinging around and around. After the event, the janara would go mental and cause horror across the region.

This is all part of an Italian legend of witchcraft, where women called “janara” (witches) would congregate at night around a walnut tree and do devious stuff. According to excellent online art source Inspiraggio:

“The subject had recently reached a wide public through the stage. In 1812 a ballet called Il noce di Benevento, choreographed by Salvatore Viganò to music by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, was performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and drew large crowds for its supernatural theme. Recent research argues that Bagetti attended the performance and drew the scene from life before completing it in watercolor, which would make this sheet a record of the ballet rather than a plain illustration of the folk tale. That reading fits his documented practice of working directly from observation, the same method he used for years in his topographic and battle views.”

This folklore of the witches of Benevento dates back to the 13th century. Historical reports from 1273 claim of gatherings, with statements from an actual witch called Matteuccia da Todi (a nun the rest of the time) indicating rituals took place under a walnut tree. She was put on trial for witchcraft in 1428.

Many trials took place and women were accused of using magic spells through this chant.

‘Nguento, ‘nguento,
mànname a lu nocio ‘e Beneviento,
sott’a ll’acqua e sotto ô viento,
sotto â ogne maletiempo.

Unguent, unguent,
send me to the walnut tree of Benevento,
under the water and under the wind,
under all bad weather.

The belief was the janara would smear themselves in unguent, get on their brooms, and fly about the place. With such beliefs, it’s good to see our ancestors were so very enlightened back then.

Away from the lunacy of that contemporary moral panic, the thing here is the piece is very removed from the rest of Bagetti’s work. His day job was as a civil and military architect and painter. He was supposed to paint stuff with millimetric, authentic accuracy.

The Walnut Tree in Benevento let him go off on one, taking an artistic route otherwise denied him by the drudgery of working life. Thus, it’s a curious anomaly in his canon, but one that you’re not going to forget for a while.

Other Works by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti

Yeah, so the rest of Bagetti’s work involved landscapes and battle scenes etc. Fairly traditional from his era, and before it, although it is noteworthy for its brilliance.

View of Saorgio by Giuseppe (1893) is incredible. That’s of the seemingly snowy citadel in Saorge, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Bagetti was from Turin and studied music at first, before moving into other disciplines. By 1793 he was so established with his work, King Vittorio Amedeo III named him the designer of views and landscapes (vedute e paesi) for the kingdom of Italy.

He later moved to Paris and continued his work for Napoleon and ended up being a geographic engineer for the Napoleonic government.

Cleary very gifted, then, but also just remarkable how the passage of time removes great talents from the limelight. Bagetti was a big deal during his day, now his work seems to be falling into obscurity.

Saturday Religious Service Guide in the Triangle – Where to Worship This Weekend

Whether you’re looking for a Saturday Sabbath service, a Catholic Vigil Mass, a Shabbat gathering, or a contemporary worship experience, the Triangle offers a wide variety of faith communities welcoming residents and visitors every weekend.

From Raleigh to Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill, Saturday provides opportunities for worship, fellowship, reflection, and community. Here’s your DoRaleigh guide to Saturday religious services.

Saturday Worship Services in Raleigh

Seventh-day Adventist Worship

Saturday is the biblical Sabbath for Seventh-day Adventist churches, with services typically including Sabbath School followed by worship.

• Raleigh Seventh-day Adventist Church
  • Sabbath School: 9:30 a.m.
  • Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.
• Capital City Seventh-day Adventist Church
  • Sabbath School: 10:00 a.m.
  • Worship Service: 11:15 a.m.  

Catholic Saturday Vigil Mass

Many Catholic parishes celebrate Vigil Mass on Saturday evening.

• Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral – Saturday Vigil Mass
• St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church – Saturday Vigil Mass
• St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church – Saturday 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass
• St. Michael the Archangel (Cary) – Saturday 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass
• St. Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill)
  • English Vigil Mass: 5:15 p.m.
  • Spanish Vigil Mass: 7:15 p.m.  

Contemporary Christian Worship

Several churches offer Saturday evening services designed for families and those who work on Sundays.

• Hope Community Church
  • Saturday Service: 4:15 p.m.
• Celebration Church
  • Saturday Evening Service: 5:00 p.m.  

Jewish Shabbat Services

The Triangle’s Jewish community observes Shabbat with Saturday morning worship, Torah study, and fellowship.

• Beth Meyer Synagogue (Raleigh)
  • Shabbat Morning Service: 9:30 a.m.
• Temple Beth Or (Raleigh)
  • Shabbat services and programming (schedule varies by week)  

Muslim Prayer & Community

The Islamic Association of Raleigh offers daily prayers throughout the week, including Saturdays, along with educational programs and community activities.

Weekend schedules may include family programming, Qur’an study, and youth activities in addition to daily prayers.  

Here are three well-known mosques in Raleigh:

1. Islamic Association of Raleigh (IAR)
   • Address: 808 Atwater St, Raleigh, NC 27607
   • One of the largest Islamic centers in North Carolina, offering daily prayers, Friday Jumu’ah, educational programs, youth activities, and community services.  
2. Muslim Youth and Community Center (North Raleigh Masjid)
   • Address: 5017 Deah Way, Raleigh, NC 27616
   • A growing community mosque serving North Raleigh with daily prayers, Islamic education, and family programming.
3. Masjid An-Noor al-Muhammadi
   • Address: 3620 Tryon Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606
   • A local mosque offering daily prayers, Jumu’ah services, and community gatherings.  

More Than Worship

Many Triangle congregations also offer:

• Bible studies
• Youth and children’s ministries
• Men’s and women’s groups
• Community outreach programs
• Food pantries
• Volunteer opportunities
• Prayer groups and fellowship events  

Before You Visit

Because service times may change due to holidays or special events, it’s always a good idea to:

• Check the congregation’s website before attending.
• Arrive 10–15 minutes early.
• Review parking and accessibility information.
• Contact the congregation if you have questions about dress, childcare, or visitor accommodations.  

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Shabbat shalom from me to you. 🍷

There is something I have carried with me my whole life from Tel Aviv to here and it is this. No matter how full or how heavy the week was, Shabbat arrives and gently tells you to put it down. To pause. To raise a glass to everything you survived and everything you are grateful for.

So here I am glass in hand, wishing you rest that actually feels like rest. A table surrounded by people who know you. And a moment this weekend where you let yourself simply be.

You earned this pause. Take it.

#ShabbatShalom #Shabbat #JewishLife #Israel #Sabbath

Cyril—church father, Christological controversialist—turns to Hebrews 13:16 on charitable giving. God is content with such sacrifices, Cyril says. What God does not love is the incense of legal worship. The sweet spiritual savour he actually wants is showing pity to people and maintaining love toward them. One notes that internet forums feature considerable Christian anxiety about keeping up with devotional requirements. Cyril would recognise the incense. He would redirect the energy.

#sabbath

The Sabbath Sabotage

They told us
holiness was neat,
pressed flat like Sunday clothes,
folded into bulletins,
spoken in indoor voices,
kept safely between hymns
and handshakes.

They told us
Sabbath was a soft thing,
a nap for the soul,
a gentle pause
before returning
to the holy machinery
of earning, buying, proving, becoming.

But Sabbath was never safe.

Sabbath is a wrench
thrown into Pharaoh’s gears.
A door barred against the market.
A candle lit
in defiance of the floodlights.
A refusal
to kneel before the stopwatch.
A holy no
rising like thunder
from tired bones.

Six days, they say,
you shall labor.
And the seventh?
The seventh is mutiny.

The seventh day
the fields are not your masters.
The ledgers do not own your name.
The inbox may howl
like a beast outside the gate,
but you will not feed it.
The empire counts bricks.
Sabbath counts blessings.
The empire demands output.
Sabbath gathers manna
and says, enough.

Enough for today.
Enough for this body.
Enough for this earth.
Enough for a life
that was never meant
to be fed into furnaces
just to keep the towers warm.

Sabbath is not laziness.
It is revolt
with bread on the table.
It is trust
with dirt under the fingernails.
It is the slave
remembering he is human.
The widow
remembering she is seen.
The ox
remembering grass.
The land
remembering how to breathe.

And maybe that is why
they sabotage Sabbath.

Because rest breaks rank.
Because silence interrupts slogans.
Because delight cannot be monetized forever.
Because a people
who learn to stop
may also learn
they can refuse.

Refuse the lie
that worth is measured in production.
Refuse the sermon
of profit without mercy.
Refuse the fear
that if we cease for one day
the world will fall apart—
as though we were the ones
holding up the stars.

No.
Sabbath is the admission
that we are not God,
and the miracle
that God is still good.

So let the engines choke.
Let the schedules stutter.
Let the tyrants call it weakness.
Let the anxious call it waste.
Let the merchants stand bewildered
before shuttered stalls
and unhurried hearts.

For this is the sabotage:
to rest in a restless world,
to feast in a famine of joy,
to loosen your fist
when all of history
has trained it to clench.

To stop.
To breathe.
To bless.
To remember
that we were not made
for endless extraction,
but for communion—
with God,
with neighbor,
with creature,
with soil,
with our own forgotten souls.

And so, on the seventh day,
we commit our small rebellion:
we light candles against consumption,
set tables against despair,
sing psalms against the grind,
and call this shattered life
still sacred.

This is no small thing.
This is how the kingdom enters:
not always with trumpets,
but with napping children,
unbought hours,
shared bread,
and a people audacious enough
to believe
that the world can turn
without their frantic striving.

Blessed are the saboteurs of empire.
Blessed are the keepers of Sabbath.
Blessed are the tired
who lay their burden down
and find, beneath the weight of all they carried,
a joy the masters could not confiscate.

For every Sabbath kept
is a crack in the idol.
Every prayer whispered at rest
is a seed beneath the pavement.
Every holy pause
is a hammer blow
against the myth
that Caesar owns time.

He does not.
The clock does not.
The market does not.

Time belongs to God.
And God,
in mercy,
has given some of it back to us.

David/Dovid Bashevkin: "Walk into nearly any Orthodox community on Shabbos and you’ll be immediately transported into a world you thought no longer exists. No phones. No TV. Kids playing with their neighbors. Parents sitting around talking. Some curmudgeon on the couch reading. It’s still the 90’s." | nitter
https://nitter.net/DBashIdeas/status/2048561390248468546#m

#sabbath

You don’t fall behind when you rest. You return better.

There’s a quiet pressure to always be moving, always doing, always making progress. But there’s another side to that rhythm.

Rest isn’t falling behind. It’s part of moving forward well.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is step back just long enough to come back with clarity.

#Rest #Renewal #Restore #SlowDown #IntentionalLiving #Sabbath

Rest is not a pause from your life. It’s a return to it.

We often treat rest like an interruption.

Something we have to earn. Something we feel guilty for.

But real rest doesn’t take you away from your life.

It brings you back to it.

Back to clarity.

Back to perspective.

Back to what actually matters.

Today, don’t rush.

Just return.

Steady.

#Steady #Rest #Presence #Mindfulness #QuietStrength #Saturday #Sabbath

Leonard Woolsey Bacon—Congregationalist, Connecticut, not a man satisfied with occasional goodwill—takes James 1:27 and makes it structural. Not inspirational. Structural. A systematic portion of the Sabbath: mercy. Deacons and deaconesses on official errands to the poor. Not when convenient. On the Lord’s Day itself. One appreciates the instinct to pause at this. But Bacon’s point is rather hard to argue with if you’ve actually read the verse he’s quoting.
#christian #sabbath

After a few days of focusing on steady steps and showing up, today is a reminder of something just as important.

Rest isn’t stepping away from the journey. It’s how we stay steady on it.

Rest isn’t falling behind.

It’s part of how we keep going.

What does true rest look like for you right now?

#SteadyGrowth #PurposefulPresence #Rest #Sabbath #FaithAndLife #Renewal

Rest is not a reward for finishing the work.

It is part of the work.

We often treat rest like something we earn after everything is done.

But the truth is rest is what allows the work to be sustained.

Today is not a step back.

It’s part of moving forward.

#Steady #Rest #Sabbath #Restore #Leadership #MentalHealth

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - (Donald Hornsby)

Life today is filled with noise—notifications, expectations, and constant motion.

But clarity often arrives in quieter moments.

When we slow down long enough to listen, we begin to notice things we may have missed before: perspective, gratitude, and direction.

Stillness has a way of revealing what hurry hides.

When was the last time you allowed yourself a moment of quiet reflection?

#LeanLiving #Quiet #Sabbath #Leadership

This world and the cosmos are permeated with meaning - all of it proclaiming #God and his desires for us. The only reason we can’t see all of that meaning is because we have forgotten how to “read” it.

If we are to recover our ability to understand the meaning woven into all things one of the first things we need to do is disentangle our lives from #technology and our devices on a regular basis. At minimum we need one day a week to be free from screens and to enjoy getting back out into creation.

We need, what the #Bible calls, #Sabbath

#laraza #sabbath #nowplaying
https://youtu.be/GoqcIQ37amo?si=vQMuZwqUsrCHFWLI

Today’s the #Sabbath , which is a day of rest allotted to humans. Perhaps one of the oldest #workers rights traditions.

It’s rooted in freedom from slavery under Hyksos in Kemet. An acknowledgement of holy life.

Tradition broke when ICE & Border Patrol increased #deportations towards their crowded cells.

Tradition broke when military killed & attacked foreign government (Sat, Jan 3, 2026).

Scary to think that President #Trump received an award from PM #Netanyahu .

https://www.vera.org/news/more-people-are-in-immigration-detention-than-ever-before

Samaritanism

Samaritanism is an Abrahamic monotheistic, ethnic religion. It comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, & legal traditions of the Samaritan people.

Often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, who originated from the Hebrews & Israelites. They began to emerge as a relatively distinct group after the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the Iron Age. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the 4th, & penultimate, stage of ancient Assyrian history.

Central to their continuity as an Indigenous Heritage in the Holy Land is keeping the Patriarchal & Mosaic covenant as specified in the Samaritan Torah. Samaritans believe this is the original & unchanged version of the Pentateuch (which is the first 5 books of the Hebrew & Christian bible) since Moses & the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The Abisha Scroll is traditionally held by the community to be the oldest existing scroll written by Abisha, son of Aaron the priest, around 3,000 years ago based on living tradition. However, Jewish & Christian theologians have made attempts to dispute this claim which proved unsatisfactory.

Judaism claims Samaritanism developed right alongside their own religion. Samaritanism asserts itself as the true preserved form of the monotheistic faith that the Israelites kept under Moses. Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites’ original holy site was Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, the State of Palestine (West Bank).

They also believe that Jerusalem only attained importance under Israelite dissenters who had followed Eli (In the Book of Samuel, Eli was a priest & judge of the Israelites in the city of Shiloh) to the city of Shiloh.

The Israelites who remained at Mount Gerizim would become the Samaritans in the Kingdom of Judah. Mount Gerizim is revered by Samaritans as the location where the Binding of Isaac occurred. In comparison to the Jewish belief that it occurred at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

Today there are only about 900 registered communal members. This puts Samaritanism as 1 of the smallest ethnoreligious groups globally in the Abrahamic faiths. Samaritans believe that this is a prophecy fulfilled from the scriptures: “You’ll be left few in number.”

Though they hope for a future time when a prophet like Moses known as the “Taheb” (Restorer) will perform 3 signs, namely the jar of manna, the staff of Moses, & Cherubim, or the Golden Candlestick.

This time period they believe is when an era of Divine Favor would return, & the hidden tabernacle of Moses would miraculously be revealed for the Israelite people & Mount Gerizim is restored to its former glory.

Samaritans trace their history, as a separate entity, to a period soon after the Israelites’ arrival into the “Promised Land.” Samaritan historiography traces the schism to High Priest Eli leaving Mount Gerizim, where stood the 1st Israelite altar in Canaan, & building a competing altar in nearby Shiloh.

The dissenting group of Israelites who followed Eli to Shiloh would be the ones who, in later years, would head south to settle in Jerusalem (the Jews). Whereas the Israelites who stayed on Mount Gerizim, in Samaria, would become known as the Samaritans.

Genetic studies in 2004 suggest that Samaritans’ lineages trace back to a common ancestor with Jews in the paternally-inherited Jewish high priesthood (Cohanim) temporally near to the period of the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel. They’re probably descendants of the historical Israelite population. The Cohanim refers to the Jewish priestly class, male descendants of Aaron the priest.

The Hasmonean king, John Hyrcanus, destroyed the Mount Gerizim Temple & brought Samaria under his control around 120 BCE. This led to a long-lasting sense of mutual hostility between the Jews & Samaritans.

From this point, the Samaritans likely sought to consciously distance themselves from their Judean brethren. Both peoples came to see the Samaritan faith as a religion distinct from Judaism. By the time of Jesus, Samaritans & Jews deeply disparaged one another, as shown by Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan.

The main beliefs of Samaritanism are:

• There’s 1 God, Yahweh, the same God recognized by the Jewish prophets.
• The Torah is the only true holy book & was given by God to Moses. The Torah was created before the creation of the world & whoever believes in it is assured a part in the world to come. The Torah’s status in Samaritanism as the only holy book causes them to reject the Oral Torah, the Talmud, & all the prophets & scriptures, except for a version of the Book of Joshua (which they don’t hold as Scripture), whose book in the Samaritan community is significantly different from the Book of Joshua in the Jewish “Bible.” Moses is considered to be the last of the line of prophets.
• Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, is the 1 true sanctuary chosen by God. The Samaritans don’t recognize the sanctity of Jerusalem & don’t recognize the Temple Mount, claiming instead that Mount Gerizim was the place where the Binding of Isaac took place.
• The Apocalypse, called “the day of vengeance,” will be the end of days. When an entity called the Taheb (basically the Jewish Messiah equal) that comes from the tribe of Joseph will come, be a prophet like Moses for 40 years & bring about the return of all the Israelites, following which the dead will be resurrected. The Tahib will then discover the tent of Moses’ Tabernacle on Mount Gerizim, & will be buried next to Joseph when he dies.

The Samaritans have retained the institution of a high priesthood & the practice of slaughtering & eating lambs on Passover Eve. They celebrated Pesach, Shavuot, & Sukkot. But they use a different method from that used in mainstream Judaism in order to determine the dates annually.

For example, Yom Teru’ah (the biblical name for Rosh Hashanah), at the beginning of Tishrei (This is the 1st month of the civil year & the 7th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar.), isn’t considered a New Year as it is in Rabbinic Judaism.

Their Sabbath is observed weekly by the Samaritan community every week from Friday to Saturday, beginning & ending at sundown. For 24 hours, the families gather together to celebrate the rest day: all electricity with the exception of minimal lighting (kept on the entire day) in the house is disconnected, no work is done, & neither cooking nor driving is allowed.

The time is devoted to worship which consists of 7 prayer services, reading the weekly Torah portion, spending quality time with family, taking meals, rest & sleep, & visiting other members of the community.

Passover is particularly important in the Samaritan community, climaxing with the sacrifice of up to 40 sheep.

The Counting of the Omar remains relatively unchanged. The Counting of the Omar is a ritual in Judaism that consists of a verbal counting of each of the 49 days between the holidays of Passover & Shavuot. However, the week before Shavuot is a unique festival celebrating the continued commitment Samaritanism has maintained since the time of Moses.

During Sukkot, the Sukkah (the temporary hut built for use during Sukkot) is built INSIDE of houses, instead of OUTSIDE like mainstream Judaism. This Samaritan tradition is traced back to the persecution of the Samaritans during the Byzantine Empire.

The roof of the Samaritan Sukkah is decorated with citrus fruits & branches of palm, myrtle, & willow trees. This is in accordance with the Samaritan interpretation of the 4 species designated in the Torah for the holiday. The 4 species are 4 plants (the etrog, lulav, hadass, & aravah) mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

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Step out of the noise long enough to hear what truly matters again.

We’re surrounded by constant input, opinions, expectations, and urgency.

But clarity rarely comes from more volume.

Today, consider what happens when you step away just long enough to listen.

Not to the noise.

But to what grounds you.

#Saturday #Rest #Restoration #Sabbath #Weekend

Rest is not a luxury; it’s how you remember who you are.

Some weeks take more out of us than we realize.

Today is the pause that restores perspective, steadies the heart, and reminds us of what truly matters.

This is just a reminder to take time to slow down, pause, and simply rest.

#Rest #Restoration #Sabbath #SlowLiving #PurposefulPresence #Leadership

It's my favorite Sabbath record, so it's about time I finally watched the Master of Reality documentary from 2022. The full doc is free on YouTube, too: https://youtu.be/A6GTf6rOepQ

On Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/bvPJ5J

#Sabbath #MasterOfReality #metal #BlackSabbath #70s #1970s #70sRock #70sMetal #documentaries #Ozzy

Today’s (October 22) #Gospel reading is Matthew 12:1-14. These verses teach us that it is lawful/permitted to do good things on the sabbath/our day of rest. It’s an important lesson for those who are able to take/have a regular day of rest. Not everyone is. In fact, a weekly day of rest is a luxury that more & more people can’t afford. Many people have no choice but to work without rest if they want to survive.

Perhaps the lesson needs to be reframed.

Rather than giving permission to do good on the #sabbath we ought to read these verses as an instruction or even an imperative to do good, especially on the sabbath. Imagine if our post-worship coffee hours were opportunities to feed the hungry, befriend the lonely, or do something good for the planet/our community. Our largest gatherings occur on the sabbath, yet the sabbath is also the day we do the least for others because we have the luxury of rest. Maybe we shouldn’t. Maybe we should be doing good instead.

This guy does NOT get anything like enough love.
https://youtu.be/_8_fi_ojoFs

#drums #sabbath #funk #impro

Michael Gungor said: “Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.”

It’s a reminder that we weren’t made to run endlessly. Rest is not an interruption. It’s the design.

Taking time to pause today makes tomorrow stronger.

#rest #burnout #Sabbath #saturdayvibes #leadership #todaymatters

Commentary on Gospel of Thomas Saying 27: True Sabbath Rest: The Heavenly Repose of Meditation @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/commentary-on-gospel-of-thomas-saying-27-true-sabbath-rest-the-heavenly-repose-of-meditation-115f561e62b8

@ Blog: https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2025/09/commentary-on-gospel-of-thomas-saying.html

#GospelOfThomas #MeisterEckhart #Sabbath #Meditation #Spirituality #gnosis #gnosticism #repose

I find it hard to believe that there is a #black #sabbath #ballet

https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buehne/Black-Sabbath-The-Ballet-Heavy-Metal-trifft-Ballett,blacksabbath100.html

#metal #rock #music

#NewJersey town sues #AmericanDreammall for ignoring #BlueLaws and selling merch on #Sundays

The #American Dream mall is open on Sundays.

That, however, violates the #religious rules in #BergenCounty, New Jersey, which say stores can't sell merchandise on Sundays to ease traffic and give people a day of rest on the #Sabbath.

A #lawsuit will decide how this ends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9KZKWExBwI