Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972) was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the US civil rights movement.

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Prophets suffer the harms done to others

"The prophets’ great contribution to humanity was the discovery of the evil of indifference. One may be decent and sinister, pious and sinful. The prophet is... Read more.