A quote from The Sabbath

line from the old litany will come back to him: Time occurs at varying sizes and scopes.

If the sacred calendar traces the path of the soul, then the Torah is the path of the heart. It is, in fact, the heart that keeps the sacred calendar going, that joins its end to its beginning.

Time and the heavens came into existence at the same instant. God made the sun so that animals could learn arithmetic—without the succession of days and nights, one supposes, we should not have thought of numbers. The sight of day and night, months and years, has created knowledge of number and given us the conception of time, and hence came philos

There is much enthusiasm for the idea that God is present in the universe, but that idea is taken to mean His presence in space rather than in time, in nature rather than in history; as if He were a thing, not a spirit.

The Shabbat rest teaches us that change is completed by peace, and action is enriched by contemplation.