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(RNS) — In his book “The Sabbath,” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that Jews did not build great cathedrals into space. Their great accomplishment was a cathedral in time — the Shabbat, or 24-hour ...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, noted Jewish philosopher and civil rights activist of the 20th century, described the Jewish Sabbath as “a cathedral in time.” While the Temple was standing in Jerusalem, ...

Rabbi Shai Held offers an introduction to a giant of 20th-century American Jewish thought and activism. I confess that Heschel’s lavish, epigrammatic prose and devotion to the living reality of God ...

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Whether it was protesting alongside his friend, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., championing the cause of Soviet Jews or wondering what kind of God could have permitted the Holocaust, Abraham Joshua ...

Elliott Jones, Boston College '26, recently completed his year-long research project “Sabbath and Leisure as Remedy for Modernity: A Comparative Study Between Abraham Joshua Heschel and Josef Pieper” ...

In this illuminating collection, Erlewine (Judaism and the West), professor of religion at Wesleyan, arranges 12 excerpts from the theological writings of Abraham Heschel (1907–1972), a Polish ...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel were good friends whose work influenced people around the world to seek peace and justice. Their children, Susannah Heschel and ...