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would seek pairs of rabbis engaged in conversation on Shabbat and said to them: Please do not desecrate Shabbat by failing to delight in Shabbat.
Rava said, and some say it was R' Yehoshua ben Levi who said: Even an individual who prays on Shabbat evening must recite the passage: “And the heavens and the earth were finished [vaykhullu]” (Genesis 2:1–3), as Rav Hamnuna said: Anyone who prays on Shabbat evening and recites the passage of vaykhu
Rav Ḥisda said that Mar Ukva said: One who prays on Shabbat evening and recites vaykhullu, the two ministering angels who accompany the person at all times place their hands on his head and say to him: “And your iniquity has passed, and your sin has been atoned” (Isaiah 6:7). It was taught in a bara
R' Elazar said: A person should always set his table on Friday with all the preparations for an important feast, even if he only needs the table set for an olive-bulk of food. And R' Ḥanina said: A person should always set his table at the conclusion of Shabbat, Saturday night, for a feast in defer
Apropos the reward for honoring Shabbat, the Talmud cites statements about the reward for answering amen. R' Yehoshua ben Levi said that anyone who answers: Amen, may His great name be blessed, wholeheartedly, with all his might, they rip his sentence, as it is stated: “When punishments are annull