The Sabbath — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The book everyone quotes about Shabbat, and one of the genuinely beautiful pieces of religious writing of the last century. Heschel's argument is that Shabbat is a cathedral built in time rather than in space — that the seventh day is not a pause in the week but the point of it.

Short. Closer to poetry than to instruction. It will not tell you how to keep Shabbat; it will tell you why you would want to.

Where this comes from

Heschel was a Conservative Jewish rabbi and philosopher, not a Messianic writer — there is no reference to Yeshua here. We stock it because it is the finest thing written on the seventh day and both of our communities quote it constantly.

Details

• Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux · Paperback