In his book The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel famously posits that Jews should build sanctuaries in time, so to speak, instead of focusing so much energy on physical structures. In their new book Jews and Words, novelist Amos Oz and his daughter, historian Fania Oz-Salzberger, pose another Heschelian alternative to physical structures: words. In an NPR interview, Oz says: “For thousands of years, we […]