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The Sabbath
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Technical civilization is man's conquest of space.... We expend time to gain space... Yet to have more does not mean to be more... The danger begins when in gaining power in the real of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern... We have often suffered from the degradation by poverty, now we are threatened with degradation through power. There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain."
God is now instead of god is here. When religion is dominated by the idea that god resides especially in a particular space, god is made into a thing; a part of space.
"...In contrast, the Sabbath is entirely independent of the month and unrelated to the moon. Its date is not determined by any even in nature...but by the act of creation. Thus the essense of the Sabbath is completely detached from the world of space.
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things in space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world."
"[Rabbi Shimeon] fled from the world where eternity was the attribute of a city [Rome] and went to the cave where he found a way to endow life with a quality of eternity."
"What is the Sabbath? Spirit in the form of time."
God is now instead of god is here. When religion is dominated by the idea that god resides especially in a particular space, god is made into a thing; a part of space.
"...In contrast, the Sabbath is entirely independent of the month and unrelated to the moon. Its date is not determined by any even in nature...but by the act of creation. Thus the essense of the Sabbath is completely detached from the world of space.
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things in space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world."
"[Rabbi Shimeon] fled from the world where eternity was the attribute of a city [Rome] and went to the cave where he found a way to endow life with a quality of eternity."
"What is the Sabbath? Spirit in the form of time."