Class 10. 2/18 Sacred time: Shabbat (the Sabbath)
Wood engravings by Ilya Schor from The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1951).
Tanakh: Exodus 19–20, Leviticus 23:1–3. Review Genesis 1.
George Robinson, Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals (2001), “Shabbat Download Shabbat,” 81–88.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath Download The Sabbath (1951), 3–32.
How does the concept of Shabbat structure Jewish views of time? What does Heschel mean by “architecture of time”?