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Abraham Joshua Heschel, PhD, (1907–1972) escaped Nazi Germany to become an influential Polish American rabbi, theologian, philosopher, and author. As a professor of Jewish mysticism at Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Heschel focused on Jewish spirituality over strict textual study. Active in the civil rights movement, Heschel marched in Selma, Alabama, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and opposed the Vietnam War.

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Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations

Translated from the Hebrew after his death, Abraham Heschel's Heavenly Torah is considered a master work of Jewish theology.

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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

This first collection of essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies, is compiled, edited, and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel.

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I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology

Abraham Joshua Heschel addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of human phenomena—the holy man. Edited and with an introduction by Samuel H. Dresner.

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A Passion for Truth

It is comparatively easy to preach joy and fervor, but to demand Truth is like shaping marble without tools. And so [the Kotzker] went looking for a few surging people and called loudly upon their souls to bend their conceit and see the Truth beneath the soil....

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Who Is Man?

In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in May 1963, Dr. Heschel inquires into the logic of being human: What is meant by being human?

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The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence

The Insecurity of Freedom is a collection of essays on Human Existence by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of our time, Abraham Joshua Heschel. "Our theme is religion and its relationship to the free society."

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Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Man Is Not Alone is a profound, beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence, explores it, accepts it, and builds life upon it.

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Israel: An Echo of Eternity

Israel: An Echo of Eternity is Dr. Heschel's book about the past, present, and future home of the Jews. According to Dr. Heschel the presence of Israel has tremendous historical and religious significance for the whole world: "History is not always made by men alone...

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The Sabbath

In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel introduces the enormously influential idea of an "architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time.

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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

A Holocaust survivor’s surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.

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