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a_tall_yid's review
4.0
Short read and very beautiful but even for a short book, quite redundant. Basically Shabbat gives us spirituality and control over time. Other religions build temples to space.
kaaleppii's review
4.0
This book presents an entirely different perspective on reality and how we are to interpret it than what we in the west are taught. Heschel emphasizes repeatedly and from many different angles how it is time, and not space, in which we principally interact with God. The Sabbath is the crown of that interaction according to him and is vital for experiencing creation in the way we were designed to. The first half of the book was as riveting as it was eye-opening. Towards the latter portions of the book, however, Heschel wanders into defenses which were sad to read as a Christian, as falling short of Christ he must look to the Torah as God's great gift and bridge to man. This is not to say that they are without merit, just incomplete. Overall though it was a fantastic read and I fully plan on reading it again next year once I've sat with it for a while.
ericj's review
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
The following is from like page 7 of this 100-some page love letter to the joys of Shabbat:
Is the joy of posession an antidote to the terror of time which grows to be a dread of inevitable death?
While I didn't get what I thought I was going to out of the book, I did get this little nugget, and so far that, 4 stars.
streberkatze's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
The profound philosophical reflections on the notion of time in Judaism made me look at Shabbat from a whole different perspective. Especially the exploration of the time / space & material world dichotomy really spoke to me.