By Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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 great cathedrals.'