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.”

Related Content

An invitation to Sabbath keeping that was at once thoroughly Jewish but also universally available—and more than that, necessary for our survival. Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD Heschel’s poetic and relevant way of connecting spoke to me, igniting my thinking.  Matan Daskal The first Jewish text included on our syllabus was a chapter from Heschel’s God in Search of Man, and I was entranced by it. Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen, PhD