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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Timeline (1907 - 1972)

Poems by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in Poland to a family with respected rabbis on both sides of his family. He received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in the early 1930s. While in Berlin, he received a liberal rabbinic ordination and began to teach Talmud. He also joined a Yiddish poetry group and published several of his poems.

In the late 1930s, Rabbi Heschel was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland. He briefly taught Jewish philosophy and Torah in Warsaw. Aided by an organization that helped Jewish scholars to emigrate, Rabbi Heschel escaped to London just a few weeks prior to the German invasion of Poland. His mother and one of his sisters were killed in the German invasion of Poland, and two other sisters later died in Nazi concentration camps.

Rabbi Heschel came to the United States in 1940, where he finally settled. He began to teach on Jewish ethics and mysticism.

In 1946, he married Sylvia Straus, a concert pianist.

Heschel's approach looked to the mysticism and inner spiritual practices of Kabbalah, Hassidism, and medieval Jewish philosophy. He also emphasized social justice activism as a natural expression of the teachings of the Hebrew prophets. He played a prominent role in the US civil rights movements and protested the war in Vietnam.

Rabbi Heschel continued to teach, write, and engage in social activism until his death in 1972.

Poems by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

	God Pursues Me Everywhere
	Intimate Hymn
	The Word Most Precious

Recommended Books

	3 Poems by Abraham Joshua Heschel: Khoyves (Debts) - MP3 Download, by Abraham Joshua Heschel / Translated by Yehudi Wyner Amazon.com
	ABC News Classics: Rabbi Heschel (DVD), by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man of Spirit, Man of Action, by Or N. Rose / Susannah Heschel Amazon.com
	Between God and Man, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	The Ineffable Name of God, Man: Poems, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, by Abraham Joshua Heschel / Susanna Heschel Amazon.com
	The Prophets, by Abraham Joshua Heschel Amazon.com
	The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel / Susannah Heschel Amazon.com
	Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, by Edward K. Kaplan Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Abraham Joshua Heschel - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_heschel A very brief biography.

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