The Sabbath

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Author	Abraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN	0-374-51267-1

Synopsis

Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of this country's most widely respected and loved religious leaders, and a writer of extraordinary gifts. The Sabbath is a profound, scholarly, and beautiful meditation on the nature and celebration of the Seventh Day. Its thesis is that Judaism is a religion of time, not space, and the Sabbath symbolizes the sanctification of time, so that "the Sabbaths are our great cathedrals." They represent a day of separation from space and the material things that fill it, a day of devotion to time and the eternity that fills it.