Book Description

In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of the most widely respected and loved religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the enourmously 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 material things that fill it, but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that "the Sabbaths are our great cathedrals".