Themes and Theology of Shabbat
Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It
How mindfulness can deepen your Shabbat experience — and vice versa
A Spiritual Shabbat Orientation
How to achieve that extra measure of soulfulness that marks the Sabbath.
Shabbat as a Reminder of the Exodus
In connecting the two, the Torah makes Shabbat a symbol of compassion and humane treatment for those in need of liberation.
Jewish Law, Shabbat and the World to Come
The school of Shammai constructed its version of the Sabbath laws on the basis of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of life in the perfect world, yet to come.
Biblical Sources on Shabbat and the Perfected World
The Bible itself is the source of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of the perfected world that is yet to come.
Shabbat as Preview of the Perfected World
Rabbinic literature and medieval Kabbalah describe the day as a foretaste of life in the perfected "world to come" that traditional Judaism anticipates.
Shabbat as a Sanctuary in Time
The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals, the Jewish equivalent of sacred architecture.
Shabbat as a Reminder of Creation
Heschel draws out the implications of the idea that we rest in memory/imitation of God's primeval rest at the end of Creation.
Why Observe Shabbat?
Modern Jewish thinkers explore new dimensions of what Shabbat observance can mean.