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Available
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Publication
New York, Farrar, Straus and Young [1951]
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."
Subjects
LCC
BM685.H4
Original publication date
1951
Physical description
118 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0374512671 / 9780374512675
Other editions
The sabbath : its meaning for modern man by Abraham Joshua Heschel (Paper Book)