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Shabbat 

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Razah D'Shabbos - P 23 (of the introduction) Shabbos and Knesses (congregation of) Yisrael are Chassan (groom) and Kallah (bride). Why are there no sin offerings on during Mussaf on Shabbos? Even the most wicked sinner - halachically defined as a rashah - will give up his life rather than accept a forced conversion and lose his last connection to Hashem. The weekday person of "what he does," or the Shabbosdig person of "who he IS?" Anochi Hashem Elokeichah (I am your G-d), the first mitzvah (commandment), is written as a statement, rather than a command. The neshamah's (soul's) deep and true response of "I am a Jew." The connection between the upper and lower Yerushalayim. At home and in our place, we act the way we really are (in time and place).