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Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.”

Book:The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe

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The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe

This book delves into the intricate tapestry of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, examining the profound impact of religion, culture, and history on the Jewish community in the region. more

Author

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

“In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.”

Matter Facts Reality Eye Space Results Failing Fingers Senses Substance Perceive Daily Life Blindness Matter Of Fact Spelling

Book:Insecurity of Freedom

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.”

Way Reality Given Wonder Mystery Honest Regard Response Finals Granted Radical Confrontation Grandeur Amazement

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.”

World Humans Understanding Human Beings Roles Relation Responsible Consuming Depriving Comprehending

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.”

World Way Firsts Two Use Force Objects Understood Appreciation Primaries Relate Manipulation Surround