The Wisdom Of Heschel

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800342

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The Wisdom of Heschel by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

"Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions...Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions." This example of Rabbi Heschel's thought and manner of expression, familiar to the readers of his many books, serves as an epigraph to The Wisdom of Heschel. As Ruth Goodhill says in her foreword, "These selections from the works of the prophetic giant of the twentieth century, Abraham Joshua Heschel, represent my personal response to his writings. This book, conceived during his lifetime, is offered as an introduction to his thought and to his profound understanding of the agonies of modern society." Most of the selections are taken from God in Search of Man, The Insecurity of Freedom, Man Is Not Alone, The Sabbath, The Prophets, and Who Is Man? Among the categories in which the excerpts have been grouped are "Questions Man Asks, " "Man's Needs, " "Caring for Our Old, " "Teaching Our Young, " "Law, "" The Sabbath, " and "One World."

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Judaism
ISBN : UVA:X001740830

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To Grow in Wisdom by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : The Crossroad Publishing Co.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X001271033

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I Asked for Wonder by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century, Abraham Heschel finds just the right words to startle the mind and delight the heart. He addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of human phenomena--the holy man.

Author : Shai Held
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253011305

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Shai Held Pdf

“Through Heschel, Held’s work reaches out more broadly to treat us to a profound discussion of the great issues in contemporary Jewish theology” (Arthur Green, Hebrew College Rabbinical School). Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel’s incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence—or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness—Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion. “Shai Held’s book is a master class in one of the most significant Jewish voices of our time.” —Tablet “In this lucid and elegant study, one of the keenest minds in Jewish theology in our time probes the vision of one of the most profound spiritual writers of the twentieth century, uncovering a unity that others have missed and shedding light not only on Heschel but also on the characteristically modern habits of mind that impede the knowledge of God. The book is especially valuable for the connections it draws with other philosophers, theologians, and spiritual writers, Jewish and Christian. Enthusiastically recommended!” —Jon D. Levenson, Harvard University “[A] thoughtful, illuminating new study of Heschel’s thought . . . It is one of the many virtues of Shai Held’s book that it helps us to place Heschel alongside not only Kaplan but Halevi, Horovitz, and Rav Nahman―as well as the Psalmist.” —Jewish Review of Books

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800090

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The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of the most widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the influential idea of an 'architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the materials things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are our greatcatherdrals.'

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429967624

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God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and compassion as Dr. Heschel discusses not man's search for God but God's for man--the notion of a Chosen People, an idea which, he writes, "signifies not a quality inherent in the people but a relationship between the people and God." It is an extraordinary description of the nature of Biblical thought, and how that thought becomes faith.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel,Susannah Heschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1570759197

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Abraham Joshua Heschel,Susannah Heschel Pdf

Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the great religious teachers and moral prophets of our time. This title provides selections from the writings of the leading Jewish theologian and philosopher, edited by his daughter.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800106

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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies.

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300262353

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice “When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Heschel, who spoke with a fiery moralistic fervor, dedicated his career to the struggle to improve the human condition through faith. In this new biography, author Julian Zelizer tracks Heschel’s early years and foundational influences—his childhood in Warsaw and early education in Hasidism, his studies in late 1920s and early 1930s Berlin, and the fortuitous opportunity, which brought him to the United States and saved him from the Holocaust, to teach at Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Theological Seminary. This deep and complex portrait places Heschel at the crucial intersection between religion and progressive politics in mid-twentieth-century America. To this day Heschel remains a symbol of the fight to make progressive Jewish values relevant in the secular world.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800335

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A Passion for Truth by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

In A Passion For Truth, Heschel delves into the exploration of hope and despair in Hasidism. Heschel drew on his own experiences from his study of the Kotzker and the Baal Shem Tov to create this classic work.

Author : Edward K. Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780827618275

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Edward K. Kaplan Pdf

This is the first volume of the first biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the outstanding Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner trace Heschel's life from his birth in Warsaw in 1907 to his emigration to the United States in 1940, describing his roots in Hasidic culture, his experiences in Poland and Germany, and his relations with Martin Buber. "This first volume of a remarkable biography of one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and social activists of his generation must take its place in every home, in every library, Jewish and gentile alike. Written with warmth, passion, and grace, it offers the reader an insight into the man Heschel, whose teaching has uniquely influenced modern theology and inspired moral commitment."--Elie Wiesel "This book is simply stunning! . . . The authors . . . have a profound understanding of Heschel's inner life, and they use all this information in order to craft a powerful portrait of a human being."--Jack Riemer, Commonweal "Th[is] long-awaited biography of Heschel cover[s] the author's youth in Warsaw and education in Vilna and Berlin. . . . Kaplan and Dresner's biography will hold broad popular interest while providing academics an important starting point from which to investigate critically the life and thought of this important thinker."--Zachary Braiterman, Religious Studies Review "Critical, careful attention [is paid] to Heschel's words."--Laurie Adlerstein, New York Times Book Review

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466801172

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Israel: An Echo of Eternity by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Israel: An Echo of Eternity is Dr. Heschel's book about the past, present, and future home of the Jews. According to Dr. Heschel the presence of Israel has tremendous historical and religious significance for the whole world: "History is not always made by men alone...Israel is a personal challenge, a personal religious issue. We are God's stake in human history. We are the dawn and the dusk, the challenge and the test. The presence of Israel is the repudiation of despair. Israel calls for a renewal of trust in the Lord of history." Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the foremost religious figures of our time, died in 1972. Israel: An Echo of Eternity is his powerful and eloquent book on the meaning of Israel today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 143950380X

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Man Is Not Alone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 087486352X

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Thunder in the Soul by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

"Abraham Joshua Heschel, descended from a long line of Orthodox rabbis, fled Europe to escape the Nazis. He made the insights of traditional Jewish spirituality come alive for American Jews while speaking out boldly against war and racial injustice"--

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826408028

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Heavenly Torah by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English.