Book, Schabat, O: its meaning for modern man[LS]

Elegant, passionate and full of love for the divine work of creation, 'The Schabat' by Abraham Joshua Heschel, has since its publication been acclaimed as a classic of Jewish spirituality, and countless readers have sought in its pages a meaning for the life in our globalized world and focused on hunting for the values ​​of materiality in modern department stores. In this brief but profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, one of the most notable masters of existential and religious thought of the Israelite flock introduces the suggestive, if not fascinating, idea of ​​an - architecture of holiness -, arising, not in space, but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of temporality: it finds its highest meanings, not in the spatial dimension and in the material things that fill it, but in the time and eternity that permeate it, in such a way that its cathedrals are, according to this vision of Heschel, the Schabatot.