[Avodah] A Shabbos of months? or hours? or ?

[Michael ORR]

Judaism has a Shabbos of days (yom hashabbos), a Shabbos of weeks (shevuous), a 
Shabbos of years (shmitah), and a Shabbos of shemitahs (yovel).
I am wondering about whether there is any tradition of Shabbos with respect to 
other units of time.
A SHABBOS OF MONTHS
A Shabbos of months seems very suggestive.   The Jewish year has two new years 
of creation, (Nissan and Tishrei – as per RH 10-11), the month of each of which 
is the seventh month counting from the other.    Tishrei is the seventh month 
from Nissan and Nissan is the seventh month from Tishrei.
As such we can conceive of the Jewish year as a thirteen month cycle comprised 
of two overlapping “Shabbos of months” cycles, (and each year similarly overlaps 
by a month with the adjacent year.)  Each cycle begins with a New Year and 
culminates in a seventh sabbatical festive month, which in turn marks the first 
month of the new cycle .  

An alternative way to view the cycles would be to see each of the two half-year 
periods as running from one solstice to the next, and containing a cycle of 
holidays (not in exactly the same form or order) that parallel each other in 
many significant respects, with each cycle being  centred on a seven day 
festival at approximately the time of the equinox, beginning at the time of the 
full moon, that embodies and gives expression to the character of the cycle.  
The spring festival is Passover, the festival of Aviv, coming from the root “av” 
(aleph beis) or “father” .  The fall festival is Sukkos, the festival of the 
“tvuas haaretz”, (Lev. 23:39) with “tvuah being based on the mirror root  “ba” 
(beis aleph).  

A SHABBOS OF HOURS
If the 12 month year can be understood as made up of Shabbos cycles, than how 
about a 24 hour day, made up of two 12 hour cycles, each in turn comprised of 
two Shabbos of hour cycles.  Shabbos hours would commence at sunrise, chatzos ha 
yom and ha laila, and sunset.
QUESTION.  
Can anyone point to sources where these ideas might be discussed and developed, 
or at least to possible supports (or non-supports)?   So far I have just seen 
suggestive shreds, e.g. in the Sfas Emes (comparing Yom Kippur and Purim – Yom 
K’Purim) and in the Rambam, comparing the Atzeres of Shevuous with the Atzere of 
Shemini of Sukkos.  But the ideas seems too compelling to have been overlooked.
Michael Orr, Toronto
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