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The Sabbath World

Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

By: Judith Shulevitz

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Paperback | 15 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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"Everyone curls up inside a Sabbath at some point or other. Religion need not be involved."
The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It's also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more sociable, purer world. Where did this notion come from? Is there value in withdrawing from the world one day in seven, despite its obvious inconvenience in an age of convenience? And what will be lost if the Sabbath goes away?
In this erudite, elegantly written book, critic Judith Shulevitz weaves together histories of the Jewish and Christian sabbaths, speculations on the nature of time, and a rueful account of her personal struggle with the day. Shulevitz has found insights into the Sabbath in both cultural and contemporary sources--the Torah, the Gospels, the Talmud, and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, as well as in the poetry of William Wordsworth, the life of Sigmund Freud, and the science of neuropsychology. She tells stories of martyrdom by Jews who died en masse rather than fight on the Sabbath and describes the feverish Sabbatarianism of the American Puritans. And she counterposes the tyranny of religious law with the equally oppressive tyranny of the clock. Can we really flourish under the yoke of communal discipline, as preachers and rabbis like to tell us? What about being free to live as we please? Can we preserve what the Sabbath gives us--a time outside time--without following its rules?
Whatever our faith or lack thereof, this rich and resonant meditation on the day of rest will remind us of the danger of letting time drive us heedlessly forward without ever stopping to reflect.

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"The Sabbath World is not merely riveting, wise, and at times breathtakingly beautiful, it just might change your life."--Jonathan Safran Foer

"Compassionate, revealing, and deeply personal . . . destined to become a classic."--Bruce Feiler, author of Walking the Bible

"What a brilliant idea. . . . Part history, part meditation . . . The Sabbath offers a way to live outside of time, even for a day a week--an act not just of renewal but of resistance in an obsessively over-scheduled and over-networked world."--Los Angeles Times

"An intense book and intensely engaging, one that as a reader I didn't want to end."--Chicago Tribune

"Every chapter of [The Sabbath World] is a wise and winsome meditation on yet another aspect of this inexhaustible topic. ... Shulevitz asks all the right questions."--Christianity Today

"A book of richness and depth."--The New York Times Book Review

"A swift, penetrating book intent on shattering the habits of mindless workaholism."--The New Yorker

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Worship, Rites & Ceremonies Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Mind, Body, Spirit Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Spirituality & Religious Experience Judaism Religion History of Religion

Introduction: The View From Afar	p. XIII
Time Sickness	p. 3
Group Dynamics	p. 31
The Scandal of the Holy	p. 59
The Flight from Time	p. 90
People of the Book	p. 117
Scenes of Instruction	p. 157
Remembering the Sabbath	p. 188
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 235
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