“Time is perpetual innovation, a synonym for continuous creation.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 100.
Miriam Neiger, Jerusalem
“Zion is in ruins, Jerusalem lies in the dust. All week there is only hope of redemption. But when the Sabbath is entering the world, [we are] touched by a moment of actual redemption; as if for a moment the spirit of the Messiah moved over the face of the earth.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1979. 68.The Neue Synagogue, Frankfurt, interior
Neue Synagoge, Frankfurt
A quotation from The Sabbath Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979).
Sabbath visitors by Max Weber
It is a mitzvah to offer hospitality on the sabbath
Synagogue at Sundown
“What would be a world without Sabbath? It would be a world that knew only itself or God distorted as a thing or the abyss separating Him from the world; a world without the vision of a window in eternity that opens into time.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 16.
Yeshiva Boy
“What would be a world without Sabbath? It would be a world that knew only itself or God distorted as a thing or the abyss separating Him from the world; a world without the vision of a window in eternity that opens into time.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 16.
Sabbath Rest, Hirszenberg
“What would be a world without Sabbath? It would be a world that knew only itself or God distorted as a thing or the abyss separating Him from the world; a world without the vision of a window in eternity that opens into time.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 16.
Friday Evening
“The love of the Sabbath is the love of man for what he and God have in common. Our keeping the Sabbath day is a paraphrase of His sanctification of the seventh day.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 16.
Dream of Goldfish
“To God who rested from all action on the seventh day and ascended upon His throne of glory.He vested the day of rest with beauty;He called the Sabbath a delight.This is the song and the praise of the seventh day,on which God rested from His work.The seventh day itself is uttering praise.A song of the Sabbath day:”It is good to give thanks unto the Lord!”Therefore, all the creatures of God bless Him.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), 24.
Hanukkah Shabbat
The Festival of Lights will always embrace at least one Sabbath
