Arnold Eisen -- The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
On Being with Krista Tippett
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God, Who Is More Than All There Is
Heschel was a master of words, not just in english, but in german, yiddish, hebrew. He's a man who wants to summon something in us beyond our rational, logical faculties. And perhaps i could read from the end of chapter nine in man is not alone,. when heschel is describing what i think has to be a personal religious experience. But then at a certain moment, staggered, embarrassed, we stammer and say, god, who is more than all there is, who speaks throughthe efable; whose question is more than our mind can answer.
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