Sabbath and the Art of Rest
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Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Saved by Brandon Dang and
To the biblical mind, however, labor is the means toward an end, and the Sabbath as a day of rest, as a day of abstaining from toil, is not for the purpose of recovering one’s lost strength and becoming fit for the forthcoming labor. The Sabbath is a day for the sake of life.
Más allá de que nos resulte aburridamente familiar, arguye Heschel, el Sabbat está organizado en torno de algunas ideas radicales. Es profundamente igualitario: todos, incluidos los sirvientes y los pobres, tienen derecho a disfrutarlo. (Hasta las bestias de carga tienen el día libre.) Es innovador en tanto asigna sacralidad al tiempo antes que al
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