Articles By Rabbi Theodore Friedman

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Rabbi Theodore Friedman, Ph.D. (1908-1992), served for many years as rabbi of congregations in Jackson Heights, New York, and South Orange, New Jersey. He later lived in Jerusalem, where he taught Talmud to students from the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires).

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  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.

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  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.

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  Jewish Law, Shabbat, and the World to Come

  The rabbinic 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.




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