The Sabbath

The Sabbath
ISBN-10
0374253218
ISBN-13
9780374253219
Series
The Sabbath
Category
Religion
Pages
138
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Description

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel introduced the idea of an "architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the material things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that "the Sabbaths are our great cathedrals."

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