Image - Friday Evening by Isidor Kaufman
“In the Bible, no thing, no place on earth, is holy by itself. Even the site on which the only sanctuary was to be built in the Promised Land … is referred to as ‘the place which the Lord your God shall choose.'”
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 80.