Rabbi Theodore Friedman
Jewish Law, Shabbat and the World to Come
The school of Shammai constructed its version of the Sabbath laws on the basis of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of life in the perfect world, yet to come.
Biblical Sources on Shabbat and the Perfected World
The Bible itself is the source of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of the perfected world that is yet to come.
Shabbat as Preview of the Perfected World
Rabbinic literature and medieval Kabbalah describe the day as a foretaste of life in the perfected "world to come" that traditional Judaism anticipates.