If you cannot keep the Sabbath, you cannot save a life.
This is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s bold implication in his little-known essay “Pikuach Neshama.”...
Might it be that theological insight is most likely to occur in the state of “vulnerability and unprotectedness,” in those moments that seem very dark indeed? There might be evidence for this in the thought of Bonhoeffer and Merton.
