Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschelwas a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was active in the American Civil Rights movement...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth11 January 1907
CountryPoland
spiritual adventure goal
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
spiritual ideas shining
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
spiritual audacity moral
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
spiritual amazed
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
spiritual integrity enjoy-life
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
spiritual healing goal
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
spiritual long audacity
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
spiritual decay failing
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
spiritual incredibles treats
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
life spiritual morning
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
god unless
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
secret may sacred
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
giving attention action
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
law negative unjust
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.