
Contributor(s):
Aharon N. Varady (transcription),
Mordecai Kaplan and
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Shared on ב׳ באב ה׳תשע״ח (2018-07-13) — under the following terms:
Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:
Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness, Roleplaying
Tags:
20th century C.E.,
58th century A.M.,
Prayers as poems,
English vernacular prayer,
Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Ḥasidut,
neoḥasidic idealization
“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. . . .