Seventh heaven

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The struggles, survival of 7th Heaven

Written by Rick Hellman, Editor (Jewish Chronicle)
Friday, 18 June 2010 12:00

The idea of Seven Heavens is actually an early Jewish mystical concept, propounded by, among others, the sect that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. So it’s fitting that a young Jewish man from Kansas City, Mo., chose 7th Heaven as the name of his record store near the corner of 76th Street and Troost Avenue back in 1974.

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The seven "firmaments" figure prominently in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice among the Dead Sea Scrolls. More on the seventh heaven (broadly speaking) here.