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

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 06/19/2011 08:37 PM, Michael ORR wrote:
> 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
<snip>
> A SHABBOS OF HOURS

Interesting thought.  Loosely following R' S.R. Hirsch's symbolism, the
number seven is usually taken as the complete measure of a thing.
(E.g., in the tochacha, the repeated "sheva al chatoseichem".)  So in
things like days or years that don't have a "built-in" cycle, we can
collect them in groups of seven.  Months (almost) divide up a year, and
hours a day, so a "seven" of hours or of months isn't as meaningful.

(I'm phrasing this badly, I'm afraid.  Someone with a better grasp of
Rav Hirsch's thought might elaborate, or correct me if I'm on the
entirely wrong track.)

--Chesky