Out of the days through which we fight and from whose ugliness we ache, we look to the Sabbath as our  homeland, as our source and destination. It is a day in which we abandon our plebeian pursuits and reclaim our authentic state, in which we we may partake of a blessedness in which we are what we are, regardless of whether we are learned or not, of whether our career is a success or a failure; it is a day of independence of social conditions.

A J Heschel, The Sabbath, Shambhala Publications Inc. p. 20-21