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Abraham Joshua Heschel  Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was active in the civil rights movement. Filter resources by Category Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Roleplaying | Yom Kippur Readings Filter resources by Tag Abraham Joshua Heschel | American Judaism | communal prayer | communal shame | English vernacular prayer | Essays on Prayer as Praxis | חסידות Ḥasidut | דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know Before Whom You Stand | Needing Proofreading | neoḥasidic idealization | North America | פחד paḥad (dread) | personal prayer | Prayers as poems | Private Prayer | private worship | why prayer | 20th century C.E. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Name Filtered by category: “Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? The Pious Man, a prayer-poem by Mordecai Kaplan adapted from the essay “An Analysis of Piety” by Abraham Joshua Heschel (1942)Contributed on: 13 Jul 2018 by Mordecai Kaplan | Abraham Joshua Heschel | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧ “The Pious Man” is a prayer-poem from Mordecai Kaplan’s diary entry, September 19, 1942, on the virtue of piety as expressed in an essay published earlier that year by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Piety was a Roman virtue, but in this essay, A.J. Heschel appears to be describing an idealization of Ḥasidut. . . . | ||
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