God’s Presence Changes Our Relationship to Time (Leviticus 25:1-13)

“To witness the perpetual marvel of the world’s coming into being is to sense the presence of the Giver in the given, to realize that the source of time is eternity, that the secret of being is the eternal within time. … All week long we are called upon to sanctify life through employing things of space.  On the Sabbath it is given us to share in the holiness that is in the heart of time. … Eternity utters a day.”—Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath God’s Presence Changes Our Relationship to Time (Leviticus 25:1-23) Rev. Nathan Barczi Leviticus 25:1-13