A Pilgrimage to the Sacred Seventh Day

Abraham Joshua Heschel

1951

What is so luminous about a day? What is so precious to captivate the hearts? It is because the seventh day is a mine where spirit's precious metal can be found with which to construct the palace in time, a dimension in which the human is at home with the divine; a dimension in which man aspires to approach the likeness of the divine. 

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A slim and relatively terse volume, Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, has had (and continues to have) a remarkable influence on contemporary Jewish spirituality. Many spiritual seekers, Jewish and non-Jewish, have received life-changing religious inspiration from this classic of twentieth-century Jewish theology. Heschel himself was heir, literally and figuratively, to the Hasidic mystical tradition, and his book, The Sabbath, reflects that quite richly—displaying his saturation in the teachings of late-nineteenth-century Polish Hasidic masters, Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (also known as the Sefat Emet) and Tzadok ha-Kohen of Lublin.

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