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The ineffable name of God--man : poems / Abraham Joshua Heschel ; translated from the Yiddish by Morton M. Leifman ; introduction by Edward K. Kaplan.
Van Pelt Library PJ5129.H4419 S5413 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
- Standardized Title:
- Shem hameforash--menṭsh. English & Yiddish
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972--Translations into English.
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua.
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English and Yiddish.
- Summary:
- The 66 poems, published here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel was 26 years old and still a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Written between 1927 and 1933-and never published in English before-this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings. These poems sound themes that will resonate throughout Heschel's later popular writings: human holiness, God's quest for the righteous person, awe and wonder before nature, a passion for truth, solidarity with the downtrodden, and an unwavering commitment to repair the corrupted world. In these poems we also discover a young man's acute loneliness, dismay at God's distance, and dreams of spiritual and sensual intimacy.
- Contents:
- Section I Man Is Holy
- I and You 31
- Help 33
- Millions of Eyes, Clogged 35
- Suicide 37
- People's Eyes Wait 39
- The Forgotten 41
- God's Tears 43
- God and Man 45
- War and Victory 47
- From Heart to Heart 49
- Cry Through the Nights A-B 51
- Section II Bearing Witness
- God Follows Me Everywhere 57
- The Most Precious Word 59
- Need 63
- Brother God 65
- Promise 67
- Intimate Hymn 69
- At Dusk A-D 71
- Palaces in Time 77
- Evenings in the City 79
- In the Evening on the Streets 83
- To the Master of Time in the Last Hour 85
- Section III To a Lady in a Dream
- To a Lady in a Dream 89
- In the Palace of Your Face 93
- My Betrothed 95
- Message 97
- From Your Hands 99
- Embarrassment 101
- Eye on a Dream 103
- Youngest Desire 105
- The Right to Wonder 107
- In the Most Distant Closeness 109
- Section IV Between Me and the World
- Between Me and the World 115
- Youth 117
- Secrets of My Longing 119
- In the Park 123
- Lonely 127
- My Seal 131
- Debts 133
- Untitled 135
- Untitled 137
- Section V Nature Pantomimes
- My Songs/Poems 141
- Summer 143
- I Befriend the Forests 145
- The Month of Tammuz in the Fields 149
- Waterfalls in the River 151
- A Sunday in July in Berlin 153
- To the Beloved in Autumn 155
- Snow on the Fields 157
- Ocean A-F 161
- Twilight 165
- At Night by the Sea 169
- Earth 171
- Section VI Repairing the World
- Guilt 175
- Forgiveness 177
- The Ne'er-do-Well (Schlimazl) 179
- Untitled 181
- Noble Friend 183
- At Night 185
- A Prayer for All Rulers 187
- The Sick Man A-B 189
- Untitled 193
- Petition 195
- Tikkun Hatzot-Midnight's Mourning Prayer 197
- Repentance 201
- My Song 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0826416322
- OCLC:
- 55625679
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