The play of time and temporality in Ashkenazi culture

From the vast literature that has been written on Time and Temporality, I d iscuss here two points: the distinction of sacred and profane for its socia l uses, and the geometrical figures that are used as landmarks of historica l consciousness. In the Ashkenazi world, the qualitative character of Time is tied up with the fact that the Sabbath is perceived as an emissary of th e "other world". The second point, that is the scales of time, takes the ex ample of David Ganz's Chronicle separated in two distinct parties, using tw o systems of datation: one for the universal History, the second for the Je wish, and, also, the double dating from Ezekiel 1-2. Measured time and line ar time can without any contradiction be encompassed in an order of Time wh ere eternal and cyclical Time flow. The constant shift of elements like ear thly and celestial, the living and the dead, delineate as so an image of an open universe, despite the strong separation between sacred and profane, l inear and circular time.