Leviticus 26:2

The days of My Sabbaths you shall keep, and walk to the house of My sanctuary in My fear; I am the Lord.

revere My sanctuary One must go to the Sanctuary on the three festivals. The sense of these verses is probably: Do not make idols for yourselves, since “they are My servants” (which was just stated prior to this); and since they are My servants, they must serve Me alone and no others.

graven image (the meaning of which is known).

monument for the abovementioned.

ornament a noun, like the word “usury” [25:37]. It denotes a painted stone, from “they have more than the heart can describe” [Psalms 73:7] and “delightful craftsmanship” [Isaiah 2:16].

do not place in your land which is how Mercury was generally worshiped [Sanhedrin 60b].

for I am God, your God and it is I to whom you must prostrate yourselves (as it is rendered in the Aramaic translation of Jerusalem [no such translation is known — Translator]).

The injunction to observe My sabbaths also includes the Sabbatical years;

while revere My sanctuary also denotes the jubilee year, as it is written, “it will be sanctified by you” [25:12]. In my opinion, “observe my sabbaths” is mentioned on account of having mentioned “to prostrate yourselves upon it” [:1], along the lines of “every Sabbath, all flesh shall come to bow to the ground before me” [Isaiah 66:23]. In other words: You must come every Sabbath to prostrate yourselves before Me — not on some ornamental stone, but only in My sanctuary. Thus, Scripture mentions the choice day (which was chosen for the service of God, as I have explained [comment on Genesis 2:3]), as well as the choice place.

I am God Who rested from all labor on the Sabbath, and Whose Glory resides in the Sanctuary, and for Whose sake you shall revere .

את שבתותי תשמורו, even during the period when you find yourselves in exile, even though that any rest observed during such periods is a reminder of your erstwhile freedom instead of your slavery in Egypt, and the fact that even G’d rested on the seventh day.

ומקדשי תיראו; the holy sites of the Jewish people during the years of their exile, such as Torah academies and synagogues. Ezekiel 11,15 describes such buildings as מקדש מעט, a “miniature Temple.” Our sages state that he referred by this definition to Torah academies and synagogues.

את שבתותי תשמורו ומקדשי תיראו, “You shall keep My Sabbaths, and revere My Sanctuary.” The Torah draws a clear parallel between the Temple and the Sabbath. It tells us that just as the observance of the Sabbath as a holy day is a permanent commandment the reverence for the Temple is similarly a commandment that has no time limit. [The temple site is sacred ground even when the temple is not standing. Ed.] This is the meaning of אות היא לעולם, “it is a sign forever.” (Exodus 31,17.)