Insightful words from the always brilliant R’ Abraham Joshua Heschel…
Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten. Working under strain, beset with worries, enmeshed in anxieties, man has no mind for ethereal beauty. But the spirit is waiting for man to join it.
Then comes the sixth day. Anxiety and tension give place to the excitement that precedes a great event. The Sabbath is still away but the thought of it’s imminent arrival stirs in the heart a passionate eagerness to be ready and worthy to receive it. (The Sabbath: It’s Meaning for Modern Man; chapter 7, Eternity Utters a day)
Have a Blessed Shabbat.
