Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...
...weeks after its defenders broke a tenet of the religious law. To regain the Temple, Jews were taught, would involve not force of arms but strict observance of moral law. Wiesel states the problem by telling a parable about an undiscovered kingdom that maintains impregnable defenses-except on the Sabbath...
...slightly mysterious character named Dan the Prince tries to persuade the rulers that the sanctity of the Sabbath must be violated in order that the kingdom may be preserved militarily, for it will not exist at all if the people who observe the sanctity of the Sabbath are destroyed. The undiscovered kingdom, faced with the dilemma of expediency versus a national spiritual responsibility, is clearly Israel, and Author Wiesel seems reluctantly to recognize the merits of Dan's arguments...