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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Rabbi Heschel is quoted as having said we must fight nihilism. He meant it then, and if he were alive today, he would mean it now. Jane West Walsh, EdD It was my own encounter with Heschel’s writings as an adolescent and young adult that challenged me. Rabbi Simkha Weintraub He was my spiritual father. Dr. Reuven Kimelman