Honoring the Sabbath is better than a thousand fasts. (כְּבוֹד שַׁבָּת עָדִיף מֵאֶלֶף תַּעֲנִיּוֹת)
Honoring the Sabbath is better than a thousand fasts. (כְּבוֹד שַׁבָּת עָדִיף מֵאֶלֶף תַּעֲנִיּוֹת)

Honoring the Sabbath is better than a thousand fasts.

A person who honors and enjoys the Sabbath is like one who purified himself by fasting.

(“The honor of Shabbat is greater than a thousand fasts, for honoring Shabbat is from the Torah, while fasting is rabbinic; and the Torah-level obligation of honoring Shabbat overrides the rabbinic fast.” — Midrash Tanchuma (Warsaw), Parashat Bereshit, siman 3.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

כְּבוֹד שַׁבָּת עָדִיף מֵאֶלֶף תַּעֲנִיּוֹת

Definition (Hebrew)

אָדָם הַמְּכַבֵּד אֶת יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת וּמִתְעַנֵּג בּוֹ מָשׁוּל לְמִי שֶׁזִּכֵּךְ עַצְמוֹ בְּתַעֲנִיּוֹת.

("וּכְבוֹד שַׁבָּת עָדִיף מֵאֶלֶף תַּעֲנִיּוֹת, דְּכִבּוּד שַׁבָּת דְּאוֹרָיְתָא וְתַעֲנִית דְּרַבָּנַן וְאִתֵּי כְּבוֹד שַׁבָּת דְּאוֹרָיְתָא וְדֶחִי תַּעֲנִית דְּרַבָּנַן" – מִדְרַשׁ תַּנְחוּמָא (וַרְשָׁא) פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית סִימָן ג).

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