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Havdalah Sets
The Conclusion of Shabbat: Havdalah and Returning to Work
The Talmud [c.f., Pirke Avot 12:10] says, "Love work," and [c.f., Avot
2:2], "Torah study that is not combined with some trade must at length
fail and occasion error." The Talmud records that our sages had
diverse jobs and businesses, including physically demanding labor.
Until only two hundred years ago, rabbis (and Jewish doctors) were compensated
only for their lost wages or business opportunities. The Talmud
says, "One should not use the Torah as a spade to dig with."
This respect for work is reflected in the Saturday evening service,
as we part from Shabbat.
On Saturday night, we insert Psalm 90:17 and Psalm 91 before the closing
Kaddish Shaleim. According to a midrash, Psalm
90:17 is the blessing Moses gave the workers after completing the building
of the Tabernacle, and Psalm 91 was written by Moses on the day the
work was completed. The closing Kaddish Shaleim is followed
by a diverse collection of biblical verses, chosen to encourage the
congrgation when facing the new week of toil that follows the Shabbat
peace. This is followed by Psalm 128, which emphasizes the dignity
of labor.
And finally (before or after Aleinu, depending on whether the
congregation is Ashkenazic or Sephardic), Havdalah takes place.
Like kiddush, Havdalah at services is a duplication
of a ritual that takes place in the home. Havdalah is a beautiful
ritual that is about 2,400 years old. "Havdalah" means "separation."
In Havdalah, you exercise all your senses. You taste
wine, smell spices, watch a candle, feel a flame, and hear yourself
recite blessings. You light a special multi-wick braided candle
(so that there are many dancing lights).* You say the blessing
over wine. You smell the spices. You cup your hands around
the candle. Light and shadow dance on your palms while you contemplate
the distinction.
While doing this you express gratitude for the existence of differences,
and for the ability to discern differences; and especially for the difference
between the sacred and the profane (the not yet sacred), and the ability
to discern this distinction. (These thoughts are also expressed
in an extra paragraph inserted on Saturday nights into the fourth benediction
of the Amidah.)
Although Havdalah is a sort of thanksgiving for your senses,
it is very sad, because what we sense is loss. You spill out the
few drops of wine left in the bottom of the cup... pick up the beautiful
Havdalah candle... and extinguish it in the wine. Shabbat
is gone.
The sadness is diffused a little bit as the congregation spontaneously
sings any of several traditional songs about E-li-ya-hu Ha-Na-vi
(the Prophet Elijah), and wishes each other a good week ("Shavua
Tov" in Hebrew, "a gute voch" in Yiddish). Tradition
says that Eliyahu will be the herald of the future redemption, and that
the redemption won't occur on the Sabbath. So hope for a perfected
world is renewed as Shabbat exits.
Havdalah and the Ethics of Diversity
The ability to appreciate separation, as expressed in the Havdalah
ritual, may be applied more broadly. Biblical narrative suggests
that one can view God as the power that divides, separates, and makes
distinctions --- the force that runs counter to the physicists' entropy.**
God appears as an ordering principle in a universe that normally
is running down into blended uniformity.
This force against entropy is active in both material and ethical spheres.
Material examples: Creation divides void into light and dark, separates
waters from waters (by sky). Ethical examples: God commanded ethnic
diversity as a blessing [Genesis 9:1 coupled with its fulfilment at
10:32.]; distinguished Israel from the nations; prohibits working oxen
and asses together, wearing wool and linen together, planting different
grains in the same field [Deut. 22:9-11 & Leviticus 19:19]; men
and women cross-dressing [Deut. 22:5], etc.
Conclusion: We are enjoined to recognize differences rather than to
deny differences, and to enjoy rather than suppress diversity.
We are to appreciate the goodness of the differences that distinguish
each part of creation. Failing to regard these distinctions as
boons, and failing to revel in their goodness, is akin to nullifying
creation. (If Cheerios tasted the same as Corn Flakes -- or vice
versa -- the world would be a poorer place. So give thanks with
every bowl.)
* The kindling of lights (and the heating of spices) is forbidden
on the Sabbath, so the Havdalah candle is a clear demarkation of Shabbat's
boundary. There is a story (c.f., Talmud Pesachim 54a) that God taught
Adam to make fire on Saturday night. So Havdalah can also be a commemoration
of that aspect of creation.
--- adapted from "The
Synagogue Survival Kit" by Jordan Lee Wagner, publ. by Rowman & Littlefield.
1997.
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