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The sabbath: its meaning for modern man

By Heschel , Abraham Joshua

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781466800090, 1466800097
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1124924 bytes)
Pages
(xvi, 118 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
RELIGION--Judaism--Rituals & Practice;Sabbath;RELI

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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