Matters of Interpretation

Books, for instance, like "of the Bible"

Shabbat shalom

Image - a family celebrates shabbat
To Israel the unique events of historic time were spiritually more significant than the repetitive processes in the cycle of nature, even though physical sustenance depended on the latter. While the deities of other peoples were associated with places or things, the God of Israel was the God of events: the Redeemer from slavery, the Revealer of the Torah, manifesting Himself in events of history rather than in things or places. Thus, the faith in the unembodied, in the unimaginable was born.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) 7-8.

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