I have wanted to read this book for a long time, but somehow never could get into it. Yet, now I have.

This is a beautiful meditation on the meaning of the Sabbath. Its primary premise is that the Sabbath is a sanctification of time and thus an experience (small as it may be) of eterminty. Heschel makes the point that the rest of human life is involved with things (space) and that only the Sabbath allows us the chance to experience the true holiness of time, which we cannot control or possess.

This is a book which spoke strongly to me and provided much food for thought in the argument of why one should "keep the Sabbath". And, for me, it is a book that I needed to be ready to hear.