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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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