404. And Say a Matter

“‘And say a matter.’ Let your speech of Shabbat [Sabbath] not be as your speech of a weekday” (Shabbat 113a). Shabbat is called Kedusha [holiness], a Shabbat of holiness. Hol [weekday] means matters that are Holanim [sickly], which are the acts of the body. There is a time when we speak from the quality of the body, its bad thoughts, desires, and feelings, and how we must correct them so it is able to receive Kedusha, and this is called “the work on weekdays,” namely the correction of the body.

Also, there is a time when we speak only of matters of Kedusha, which is generally called “the greatness of the Creator.” The speech of Shabbat should come from this quality, from speaking from the perspective of wholeness and holiness, and not from the perspective of the body, which is secular and not holy.