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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity Essays

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ISBN-10: 0374524955

ISBN-13: 9780374524951

Edition: 1997

Authors: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel

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This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies.
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/16/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Abraham Joshua Heschel was internationally known as a scholar, author, activist, and theologian. He was Professor of Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Introduction
To Be a Jew: What Is It?
The Moment at Sinai
Existence and Celebration
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah
Israel as Memory
We Cannot Force People to Believe
A Time for Renewal
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul
The Meaning of Repentance
On the Day of Hate
No Time for Neutrality
Symbolism and Jewish Faith
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer
Toward an Understanding of Halacha
Yom Kippur
Teaching Religion to American Jews
Jewish Theology
The Mystical Element in Judaism
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation
God, Torah, and Israel
The Meaning of This War (World War II)
The Plight of Russian Jews
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age
Required: A Moral Ombudsman
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement
In Search of Exaltation
A Prayer for Peace
No Religion Is an Island
Choose Life!
On Prayer
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal
What Ecumenism Is
What We Might Do Together
Reinhold Niebuhr
An Analysis of Piety
The Holy Dimension
Faith
Prayer
The Biblical View of Reality
Death as Homecoming
App. Interview at Notre Dame
App. Carl Stern's Interview with Dr. Heschel
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments