Arnold Eisen -- The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Great God of All the World Cares About Individuals, and Therefore About Me
Heshel wrote that his life was altered when he did a doctoral dissertation about the prophets of the hebrew bible. And what he found compelling there was that the god who created heaven and earth cared about the fate of widows and orphans. "For heschel, the god of the bible is really the parent of humanity, and can't stand see the suffering of god's children"
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