Holiness in Time, Not Only in Space | My Jewish Learning

Sacred space and sacred time come to us dovetailed, jointly braided in the fabric of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, the great Jewish theologian of the last century, had it, “a cathedral in time rather than in space”; the one day a week we take off becomes a vast empty space through which we can wander, without agenda, as

the essence of the Sabbath is completely detached from the world of space.

The Torah seeks to imbue time with this dimension of holiness so that the uniqueness of the human being will be sustained by the temporal reality.