The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith ShulevitzMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This beautiful book is an extended meditation on the Sabbath, as a day of rest, as a social institution and as a personal challenge. As she regales us with Sabbath history and Sabbath trivia,Shulevitz also ponders her own often troubled relationship with Judaism and Sabbath observance.
I especially enjoyed her chapter on Anabaptist Sabbatarian heresies of the 1500s and 1600s which resulted when the common people of Europe read the Bible in their own vernaculars and resolved to follow the biblical laws forbidding work on the Sabbath.
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