stricter or more relaxed observance. They have also written hymns, prayers, and books that they hoped would deepen the capacity of the larger community to know this practice and, through it, to know God more fully. Thanks to their creative work, which may serve the community for centuries without attribution, practitioners who are not in any academic sense “theologians” may draw from the rich language and the embodied experience of sabbath a knowledge of realities toward which more formal theologies