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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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