“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”
Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a renowned rabbi and Jewish scholar, born on January 11, 1907, and passed away on December 23, 1972. He had a profound impact on religious philosophy, Jewish theology, and moral ethics. more
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