The SabbathElegant, 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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User Review - SGTCat - LibraryThingConsidering the book's reputation, I expected a lot more. The prose was long winded and sometimes the author stated something that doesn't really make sense, logically, but presented it as being the logical conclusion of his argument. It took me years to finish it because I kept falling asleep. Read full review
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User Review - John_Warner - LibraryThingThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Sabbath FSG Classics |
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| Illustrated by | Ilya Schor |
| Contributor | Susannah Heschel |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0374529752, 9780374529758 |
| Length | 144 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice Religion / Judaism / Theology |
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