Saturn, Shabbos, and the Light of Eternity

It's been a while since I've been able to give a class on Christmas Day. A lot of the Jewish high-schools arrange for father-son learning that day, but with both of my sons out of high school I'm back to giving my usual American Holiday class. 

So, tomorrow's class will be on, "Saturn, Shabbos, and the Light of Eternity." It's somewhat different from my usual fair in that we'll get into Jewish astrology (though we discussed a little bit of Jewish astrologyin our Jewish Narnia series) and tomorrow we'll concentrate of Saturn. If it turns out well maybe I'll expand in a different post. But in the meantime my source text will be from the Occident and American Jewish Advocate, Vol. 22, March 1865. You can find it here: ⁨⁨The Occident and American Jewish Advocate⁩⁩ | Newspapers | The National Library of Israel

And while I'm not really going to quote Lewis much I do think this source text is in line somewhat with the idea of the minor powers taking their place under God. I need to expand on that at some point and actually fit the astronomy in. I think this article in the Occident actually does that pretty well.