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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Sabbath

Its Meaning for Modern Man

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

A short, lyrical meditation on the Sabbath as a sanctuary in time. Heschel contrasts the conquest of space by technical civilisation with the holiness of time in Judaism. One of the most widely read modern Jewish books.

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