The Sabbath

The Sabbath
ISBN-10
1466800097
ISBN-13
9781466800090
Series
The Sabbath
Category
Religion
Pages
118
Language
English
Published
2005-08-17
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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, one of the most widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the influential 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 materials things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are our greatcatherdrals.'

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