The Sabbath: Its Meaning for the Modern Man

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, AbrahamJoshua Heschel's "The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewishspirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read bythousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yetprofound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of themost widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century,introduced the influential idea of an 'architecture of holiness" thatappears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion oftime: it finds meaning not in space and the materials things that fill itbut in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are ourgreat catherdrals.'