And that is a very big deal in religious Jewish life. It had been an ecumenical night in the best sense of the word. And so they were. They didn't run out and become Jewish, and the Jews didn't become Christians. But each of us knew something remarkable had happened.
Jewish tradition teaches that the Sabbath is a glimpse of the world to come.
And all Sabbaths, to a religious Jew, are special. But the memory of this particular Sabbath will remain with me for a long time, because I think it is also a glimpse of what more of our present world could be. Marcus Stackhouse is a free-lance writer in Greensboro and a congregant of Beth David Synagogue.