Modrn Jewish Thgt

by Nahum N. Glatzer

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080520542X
• ISBN13: 9780805205428
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
• Length: 240 Pages

Customer Reviews

A treasure house of Jewish thought

This work is a collection of essays from Moses Mendlesohn to Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and Abraham Joshua Heschel. There are moving and great essays here including Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook on 'Prayer', Bialik , 'Halakhah and Aggadah', Yehezkel Kaufman On the 'Fate and Survival of the Jews' Fichman,Rachel, Yitzhak Lamdan, Abraham Broides, Yehuda Amichai all on 'Zion- Jerusalem', Rabbi Soloveitchik's 'Lonely Man of Faith'. I cite one small sample only from 'The Need for Prayer' by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, " All beings long for the very source of their origin. Every plant, every grain of sand,every lump of earth,small creatures and big ones, the heavens above and the angels, every substance together with the particles- all of them are longing , yearning, panting to attain the state of holy perfectiion. Man suffers all the time from this homesickness of the soul and it is in prayer that he cures it. When praying, man feels at one with the whole creation, and he raises it to the very source of blessing and life." p.71