A review by 3rdtimelucky
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

4.0

Beautiful insights obviously but the intensely gendered vision of Shabbat observance in Susannah Heschel's introduction put me off so badly I had to put this aside for a while... It's almost always the case with Hasidic-leaning thinkers - :( - but somehow I was particularly uncomfortable with this text's male vision of male work and male rest (facilitated by invisible female work ofc).  Afterwards I picked up "Womanist Midrash" by a Christian author and I felt like I could breathe again. Thank you AM & sorry for being a special snowflake !!!