After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. We will either forfeit or enrich the legacy of the ages. Judaism is our genesis, not our wisdom; it is notgrist for the mill of a mind. Whether he is dealing with strictly Jewish issues or interfaith or racial or the Vietnam war, he carries his consistent approach that the world must be faced constantly as God's challenge to us and our opportunity to find God. %PDF-1.5 %���� a]��T:�BUXP�,+���� �Þ���Q�Q�I�E�y>s�A�tf7�G�nL������0�nj�ap�Zԣ��C���*P9rcU�b%��b,e���b q/��`���Y ��k� Find all the books, read about the author and more.

Please try again. Some of us, tired of sacrifice and exertion, often wonder: Is Jewish existence worth the price? Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian. An excellent read. His writing is elegant, and his insights are fundamental. Does this book contain inappropriate content? endstream endobj 407 0 obj <> endobj 408 0 obj <> endobj 409 0 obj <>stream EXISTENCE AND CELEBRATION. The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.” Many of my peers grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Heschel was a Jewish Philosopher - which much of interest to say for the modern Christian. It has profoundly affected the character and life of modern man. This is a wonderful book of short essays, speeches, articles and other writings that helps to fill out the more human, more real-world perspective of the man and his approach to Jewish living. “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity” Rabbi Benjamin Barne “The hour calls for high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.” These words were wrien by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in a telegram addressed to President Kennedy on June 16, 1963.

Unless being a Jew is of absolute significance, how can we justify the ultimate price which our people was often forced to pay throughout its history? This surely I know--the source of creative Jewish thinking cannot be found in the desire to compare and to reconcile Judaism with a current doctrine. No other group has superseded them.

Its understanding cannot be attained in the comfort of playing a chess game of theories. It embraces not only the Jews of the present but also those of the past and those of the future, the meaning of Jewish existence in all ages. Susannah Heschel has compiled, edited, and written a biographical introduction to this first collection of the essays of her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), a noted scholar and theologian but also an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes. This High Holy Day season the Temple Israel community will dive into a collection of his important essays, entitled Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity. Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity. Yet when I begin to ponder about it, my theme is not the problem of one Jew but of all Jews. Philosophy of Judaism is the attempt to write a review of that performance, to formulate its principles, and to say why we take part in that drama. In trying to set forth that commitment and that destiny we feel a discrepancy between the depth of our experience and the short reach of our power of expression. Although best known until now for such influential books as Man Is Not Alone, God in Search of Man, and Man's Quest for God, all written in the 1950s, Heschel also wrote theological essays and popular articles on social and political issues. 458 0 obj <>stream Our failure in faith gives us no authority to reject or reduce the inner wealth that has come down to us from our ancestors. To fit it into the framework of personal intellectual predilections or current fashions of our time would be a distortion.

Man is creative only when he is neither apologetic nor propagandistic. by Abraham Joshua Heschel. It is a matter of immense responsibility that we here and Jewish teachers everywhere have undertaken to instill in our youth the will to be Jews today, tomorrow, and forever and ever. Not an ideal, a desirable aim of the mind, an eye for the future, but a condition of existence, not choice but destiny.

A noble person does not compare himself with anybody else. Suspiciousness, not skepticism, is the beginning of our thinking. I've found it helpful to read outside of my tradition, and I initially read Heschel to learn more about Judaism; I now read him to learn more about God. It is impossible for us to survive without the sense of life's earnestness: as if we had given a pledge in advance of our entrance into the concert of history. Our existence is either superfluous or indispensable to the world; it is either tragic or holy to be a Jew. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. The appendix contains Carl Stern's famous television interview with Dr. Heschel, recorded shortly before his death. Judaism is a source, not only an object of philosophy. Trust in these beliefs is not found in self-detachment, in brooding, gazing, musing--but by striking at the amazing sources that are within ourselves and letting our hidden forces emanate in our thoughts, deeds, words.

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We are the most challenged people under the sun. These promotions will be applied to this item: 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. He just may be what God wants of us. What we have seen in the lives of our people is so much greater than what we will ever be able to say.

Our souls tremble with the echo of unforgettable experiences and with the sublime expectation of our own response. h޼�YOIǿJ?&B��}H�!��{�H�~`^��=h÷�u>0W����=}TW�T���L:j%3ҢU��V�`��0! Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Moral grandeur and spiritual audacity : essays. Yet the strength of truth lies not in refuting others but in understanding itself, in being consistent with itself.

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