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Rabbinic literature and medieval Kabbalah describe the day as a foretaste of life in the perfected "world to come" that traditional Judaism anticipates.

The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals, the Jewish equivalent of sacred architecture.

Heschel draws out the implications of the idea that we rest in memory/imitation of God's primeval rest at the end of Creation.

Modern Jewish thinkers explore new dimensions of what Shabbat observance can mean.

The Bible has no problem giving both cosmic and social reasons for Shabbat. Creation and liberation are tightly connected.

Writing Hebrew literature in the 19th century was no simple matter, and those who did were the elite of the elite.

The pioneers of modern Hebrew literature took a cumbersome, unspoken language and created a vibrant literary tradition.

Leaving the world of the shtetl for an alluring modern culture is the primary theme of early modern Hebrew literature.

Modern Hebrew literature got an ideological start in Germany, then found artistic maturity in the East.

Overview Hebrew Literature. Jewish American Literature. Modern Hebrew Literature. Israeli Literature.