The Sabbath

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

The seventh day, Heschel teaches, is an eruption of eternity into time.

Shabbat imposes the same structure onto the larger arc of our life, so that we understand that we participate in it, both in the moment-by-moment rising up and falling away of our lives with each breath, and in the fact that we ourselves will fall away one day. We were born and we will die, and this is the natural order of things and not something