Category: Judith Shulevitz

the day is all about getting connected.

Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.

The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people. You can’t just extract lessons from it.

There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.