Remember the Sabbath Over Wine and Recall the Exodus

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 295:2

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Our rabbis taught: "Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it" (Exodus 20:8), remember it over wine at its entrance. I have only the night; from where the day? Scripture says, "Remember the day." Rav Aha bar Yaakov said: One must mention the exodus from Egypt in the sanctification of the day. It is written here, "so that you may remember" (Deuteronomy 16:3), and it is written there, "Remember the Sabbath day."

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