The Sabbath.(Book review)

From: Shofar | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Kimelman, Reuven | Copyright information

The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951).

The Sabbath is likely Abraham Joshua Heschel's most widely-read book. Widely translated, it merited a second translation into a resonant Hebrew. It achieved fame when published jointly with The Earth is the Lord's (1950). The books complement each other: the earlier portrays the sanctity of space, the later expounds the sanctity of time. Together they express the Heschelian space-time dial...

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