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Title: I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology (I Asked for Wonder Ppr) by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0-8245-0542-5 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Remarkable Soul
Comment: Heschel is truly a mysical spiriual teacher, a zaddik.
Rating: 5
Summary: . . . a deeper dimensionality . . .
Comment: This book will satisfy the soul of any lover of wisdom. It's important to recognize that it's not just for followers of Judaism. Heschel is everyone's wise man. The best way to describe I Asked for Wonder is to think of a quotation book where you want to underline everything. Here is a deeper dimensionality of understanding where having a sense of wonder for God and the universe He created is the beginning of wisdom. Heschel himself is a wonder.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wise man indeed
Comment: There are few authors that one is even tempted to call "wise" - with Heschel one wishes to say "very wise". This anthology of short excerpts should be read in a meditational manner - he gives one much to think about - to not think about it is to miss the point of the book.
An example: "Life passes on in proximity to the sacred, and it is this proximity that endows existence with ultimate significance. In our relation to the immediate we touch upon the most distant. Even the satisfaction of physical needs can be a sacred act. Perhaps the essential message of Judaism is that in doing the finite we may perceive the infinite."
This perception of the infinite in the finite is what is called "sacramental imagination" in the Christian tradition ... which is to say while Heschel is fully within the Judaic tradition, one need not be of his tradition to learn from him.
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Title: God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0374513317 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Prophets (Perennial Classics) by Abraham J. Heschel ISBN: 0060936991 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0374513287 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor ISBN: 0374512671 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel ISBN: 0374524955 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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