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Title: God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0-374-51331-7 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In a word- awesome
Comment: Reverence and awe are what come to mind when I discuss Heschel, and this work in particular. He was an incredible scholar, steeped in multiple cultures (Eastern European Hasidism, Early twentieth-century Berlin, post WWII America) and he embodied so much. He was a poet as well, which is why this book, while an explication of Jewish philosophy (which can be complex at times), is also beautifully written. If you want to understand the worldview of the Hebrew Bible, God in Search of Man is a must read. If you want to understand Judaism (and to a certain extent Christianity and Islam) this book will help you. The book is so powerful because Heschel wrote it in such a way as to evoke the very emotions (and lessons) that he felt the Bible was trying to teach.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inside of the Mind of someone who knows God
Comment: Heschel is simply amazing. It was not until his 40's that he learned English. His precision of writting in English (this is not a translation!) is amoung the best in the world.
This book is both a philosophic/logical progression as well as poetic gem.
This book changed my life. My father was Jewish, my mother not. When I got to a quote from Exodus (Sh'mot) "This is my God and I will glorify Him; The God of my father and I will exalt Him." I made up my mind to convert from nothing to Judaism.
The idea of repair of the world, Tikkun Olam,is well and alive: "It is in the employment of his (a Man's) will, not in reflection, that he meets his own self as it is; not as he should like it to be. Heschel marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and inspired many Jews to fight for the rights all all citizens in the USA.
This book is thoughtful, makes one reflect and is filled with poetry from end to end. Examples. "The heart is a often lonely voice in the marketplace of the living." "Halacha (laws) without agada (heart / self transformation) is dead, agada without halacha is wild."
As a practicing Scientist I agree with, "God is not a scientifc problem, and scientific methods are not capable of solving it."
Great book, super inspriring.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic - but as timely as ever
Comment: When originally published, this book was seen as a breath of fresh air; it doesn't "analyze" religious thougt. Rather, it forces the reader to examine his own feelings towards G-d.
Heschel, often though of as an academic with a Hasidic background, was rather a Hasidic Rebbe with university training. This work, along with his other popular books (as opposed to the scholarly ones) is written in the form of a series of Hasidic discourses at a comfort level to the reader as if he were sitting with the Rebbe at the Third Sabbath Meal and absorbing his wisdom.
The central theme, the centrality of belief in and devotion to G-d, is often overlooked in contemporary Jewish literature; many veiled (and no so veiled) jibes of contemporary religious practice and life are meant to drive home the point that "it's about G-d and man", not about buildings, organizations or other agendas or programs.
Like the Kotzker Rebbe, Heschel's hero and spiritual father, Rabbi Dr. Heschel was able to cut through the gloss, fluff, and veneer to get to the root of man's belief in and relationship with G-d.
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Title: Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0374513287 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1976 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor ISBN: 0374512671 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Prophets by Abraham J. Heschel ISBN: 0060936991 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew by Neil Gillman ISBN: 0827604033 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Man's Quest For God by Abraham J. Heschel ISBN: 0943358485 Publisher: Aurora Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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