The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel from “On Being”

Chancellor Emeritus Arnold Eisen spoke with Christa Tippet about Heschel’s embodiment of “the passionate social engagement of the prophets, drawing on wisdom at once provocative and nourishing.”

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He shot an arrow into thinking about religion; it wasn’t just about don’t do this, do that, but instead make yourself open to the amazement of the world. Rabbi Michael Graetz That book [The Prophets]—almost more than any other—set me on the course that eventually became my life.  Rabbi Martin Cohen, PhD It is a guide for my life, not to be indifferent, to be engaged socially, and not to close myself in a ivory tower. Dr. Shoshana Ronen