Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity Essays

This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian.

Introduction
To Be a Jew: What Is It?	p. 3
The Moment at Sinai	p. 12
Existence and Celebration	p. 18
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah	p. 33
Israel as Memory	p. 40
We Cannot Force People to Believe	p. 44
A Time for Renewal	p. 47
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul	p. 54
The Meaning of Repentance	p. 68
On the Day of Hate	p. 71
No Time for Neutrality	p. 75
Symbolism and Jewish Faith	p. 80
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer	p. 100
Toward an Understanding of Halacha	p. 127
Yom Kippur	p. 146
Teaching Religion to American Jews	p. 148
Jewish Theology	p. 154
The Mystical Element in Judaism	p. 164
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation	p. 185
God, Torah, and Israel	p. 191
The Meaning of This War (World War II)	p. 209
The Plight of Russian Jews	p. 213
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age	p. 216
Required: A Moral Ombudsman	p. 219
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement	p. 224
In Search of Exaltation	p. 227
A Prayer for Peace	p. 230
No Religion Is an Island	p. 235
Choose Life!	p. 251
On Prayer	p. 257
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal	p. 268
What Ecumenism Is	p. 286
What We Might Do Together	p. 290
Reinhold Niebuhr	p. 301
An Analysis of Piety	p. 305
The Holy Dimension	p. 318
Faith	p. 328
Prayer	p. 340
The Biblical View of Reality	p. 354
Death as Homecoming	p. 366
App. Interview at Notre Dame	p. 381
App. Carl Stern's Interview with Dr. Heschel	p. 395
Notes	p. 413
Sources	p. 423
Acknowledgments	p. 427
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