The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz (2010).
The Sabbath is not just a holy day of rest. It is also a concept of a less pressured and purer world.
Judith Shulevitz describes her own reckoning with the Sabbath by exploring the concepts of the Jewish and Christian sabbaths. How the sabbath is celebrated changes throughout time. It's origins come from Torah, Talmud and Christian Gospels. Various religious doctrines have imposed harsh penalties on those who fail to rest on the Sabbath, yet other views perceive the Sabbath as being made for man's reflection on life.
This book is an interesting meditation of the meaning of a day of rest. It is somewhat scholarly and not an easy read.
Read: October 2010.
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