Shabbos Quotes

“The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

“It's always like a miracle. No matter how bad everything was on ordinary days, no matter how poor they seemed, on Yontev -- like on Shabbos -- they suddenly seemed rich.”
― Ruth Tessler Goldstein, The Heart Is Half a Prophet