Shabbat Shalom Sign

Hand made Shabbat Shalom wood sign made using the art of pyrography/wood burning. Please see photos for product dimensions. Sign is finished with 3 coats of Kyrlon Satin on the front and 2 coats on the back. Metal stand is not included but can be purchased separately.

This sign reads a common phrase that can be heard on the 7th day of the week – Shabbat Shalom! Shabbat, or as some call it, Sabbath, is the Biblical 7th day of the week.

“”Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭20:8-11‬ ‭ESV‬‬

This 7th day is a special set apart day that God created for us as Christ said:

“And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭2:27‬ ‭ESV‬‬

After a rough week what is better than the peace given on this holy day? God knew what He was doing when He commanded rest for this day. It truly gives a sense of peace and completeness (shalom) to the week.

This sign also has a drawing of a tzitzit. These are worn by many for a very specific and Biblical reason. Do you all remember those WWJD bracelets that were big more than a few years ago? Tzitzits remind the wearer to ask a very similar question – am I following God’s commands?

“”Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭15:38-39‬ ‭ESV‬‬

The Hebrew word tzitzit is translated in most Bibles as tassel. So when we wear these, we look down and see them, and are reminded of the Commandments. It’s written there that throughout the generations to do this, and so here we are, still a generation of Israel, still to wear these as a reminder.

Going back to the WWJD bracelets, what would Christ do? In consulting the Gospels, we can see a picture:

“She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭8:44‬ ‭ESV‬‬

This is the Greek word for border here is “kraspedon.” She touched the “kraspedon” of His garment. What was she touching?

The “Full Thayer Lexicon” (not the abbreviated one), says: “In classical Greek the extremity or prominent part. of a thing, edge, skirt, margin; the fringe of a garment; in the N. T. for Hebrew [tzitzit], i.e. a little appendage hanging down from the edge of the mantle or cloak, made of twisted wool; a tassel, tuft: “Matthew 9:20; Matthew 14:36; Matthew 23:5; Mark 6:56; Luke 8:44.

So WWJD? According to the Bible, God’s Son did in fact follow that command given in the Old Testament and wore tzitzits. As we know He never broke any law.

So this wooden sign we made shows a picture of a tzitzit as a reminder to read our Bibles and to walk as Christ walked.

“Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭2:4-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬