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I am commanded therefore I am.

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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
Therefore
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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression being points beyond itself may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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