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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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
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University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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