For Reading

Amstutz, Anita, Soul Tending: A Journey Into the Heart of Sabbath ( Skylight Paths Publishing, 2018).

Benstein, Jeremy, “Looking Ahead to Sustainability in Israel: Shabbat as a Resource,” Position Paper, Heschel Center for Sustainability (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Bloch, Karen Lehrman, “Arianna Huffington Wants a Shabbat Revolution,” Jewish Journal, 4 September 2019; https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/303977/arianna-huffington-wants-a-shabbat-revolution.

Brueggemann, Walter, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014).

Clark, Diana Shaw, “Even Secular Tel Aviv Shuts Down For Shabbat: It’s A Powerful Antidote To Consumerism,” Forward, 9 August 2019; https://forward.com/life/428999/even-secular-tel-aviv-shuts-down-for-shabbat-and-theres-a-powerful-lesson.

Clavijo, Germán Roberto Mahecha, “El Shabat: Una Estrategía Ecológica de Dios,” Theologica Xaveriana 61,172 (Bogotá July/Dec. 2011): 423-48.

Cross, Lucienne, “Car-free Sundays are the norm in Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá,” Inhabitat, 15 April 2019; https://inhabitat.com/car-free-sundays-are-the-norm-in-colombias-capital-city-bogota.

Dawn, Marva J., Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1989).

De Graaf, John (ed.), Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003).

Fink, Dan, “Shabbat and the Sabbatical Year,” Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, ed. Ellen Bernstein (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publilshing, 1998), 112-20.

Fromm, Erich, “Der Sabbath,” Psychoanalytische Interpretationen biblischer Texte, hrsg. von Yorick Spiegel (München: Kaiser, 1972), 174-84.

Golo, Ben-Willie Kwaku, "Religious Environmental Stewardship, the Sabbath and Sustainable Futures in Africa: Implications for Sustainability Discourse," Consensus: Vol. 41,1 (2020), Article 4. 

Green, Arthur, “Sabbath as Temple: Some Thoughts on Space and Time in Judaism,” Go and Study: Essays and Studies in Honor of Alfred Jospe, ed. Samuel Z. Fishman and Raphael Jospe (Washington, DC: B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation, 1980), 287-305.

Guillermoprieto, Alma, “This City Bans Cars Every Sunday — and People Love it: Spurred by Environmental Concerns, an Experiment in Bogotá, Colombia, is Spreading Worldwide,” National Geographic, 27 March 2019; https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/bogota-colombia-ciclovia-bans-cars-on-roads-each-sunday.

Hartman, Laura M., “Christian Sabbath-keeping as a Spiritual and Environmental Practice,” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 15,1 (2011): 47-64.

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1951).

Honoré, Carl, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (New York: HarperCollins, 2004)

Hunt, Elle, “Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: ‘It's a reminder that you're alive’,” The Guardian, 27 September 2019; https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/27/jenny-odell-on-why-we-need-to-learn-to-do-nothing-its-a-reminder-that-youre-alive.

Kaplan, Aryeh, Sabbath: Day of Eternity (New York: OU/NCSY, 1993).

Kureethadam, Joshtrom Isaac, “Conservation of Our Planetary Home: The ‘Sabbath’ as an Appropriate Paradigm for Total Sustainability,” Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage 15 (2015): 165-77.

Lerner, Michael, “Transforming Shabbat, the Earth, and the Jewish People,” Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, ed. Arthur Waskow, 2 vols. (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000), 2:232-244.

Lieberman, Joseph I., and David Klinghoffer, The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath (New York: Howard Press, 2011).

McKenna, Kevin, “We Ignore Poverty and Visit Ruin on the Planet. But I have a Plan,” The Guardian, 12 May 2019; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/12/we-ignore-poverty-and-visit-ruin-on-the-planet-but-i-have-a-plan.

Muller, Wayne, Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest (London: Bantam, 1999)

Neril, Yonatan, “Shabbat and Environmental Awareness,” Jewish EcoSeminars; https://www.jewishecoseminars.com/shabbat-and-environmental-awarenesslonger-article.

Odell, Jenny, “The Case for Doing Nothing: It’s an Intentional Strategy, not a Luxury or a Cop-out,” Salon, 8 April 2019; https://www.salon.com/2019/04/08/the-case-for-doing-nothing-its-an-intentional-strategy-not-a-luxury-or-a-cop-out.

Odell, Jenny, How to do Nothing (Melville House Publishing, 2019).

Paul, Marilyn, An Oasis in Time: How a Day of Life Can Save Your Life (Rodale Books, 2017).

Peli, Pinchas H., The Jewish Sabbath: A Renewed Encounter (New York: Schocken, 1991).

Renkl, Margaret, “Remember the Sabbath Day: What if resting, all by itself, is the real act of holiness?,” NYTimes 21 October 2019; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/sabbath-day.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage.

Segal, Jerome M., Graceful Simplicity: The Philosophy and Politics of the Alternative American Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).

Shlain, Tiffany, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week (New York: Gallery Books, 2019).

Shimron, Yonat, “Earth Sabbath' Helps Activists Tend Spiritual Side of Environmentalism,” Religion News Service, 6 November 2012; https://religionnews.com/2012/11/06/earth-sabbath-helps-activists-tend-spiritual-side-of-environmentalism.

Shulevitz, Judith, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (New York: Random House, 2011).

Sleeth, Matthew, 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life ( Tyndale House Publishers, 2012).

Wirzba, Norman, “Can we Live in a World Without Sabbath: Rethinking the Human in the Anthropocene,” ABC Religion & Ethics, 29 November 2018; https://www.abc.net.au/religion/rethinking-the-human-in-the-anthropocene/10567192.

Wirzba, Norman, Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life (Grand Rapids, Mich: Brazos Press, 2006).