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...first was the late Franz Rosenzweig (TIME, April 5, 1954). The second is Martin Buber (TIME, Jan. 23). The third is Abraham Joshua Heschel. 49, Polish-born, Berlin-educated friend of Theologian Buber and associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Twinkle-eyed Dr. Heschel, a small man located beneath a bush of grey hair, labors in a blue haze of cigar smoke, and writes prose that sings and soars in the warm, intuitive tradition of the great 18th century Hasidic leaders from whom he is descended. His just-published book...
Jewish scholars and writers are showing an increasing interest in Christ as a teacher. Christians in their turn are more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian...
Ultimately, Buber applies the I -Thou idea to man's meeting with God, whom he calls the "Eternal Thou." This confrontation, says Philosopher Friedman, is "perhaps best understood from the nature of the demand which one person makes on another if the two of them really meet . . . If you are to meet me, you must become as much of a person as I am . . . In order to remain open to God [man] must change in his whole being...
...Perhaps Buber's greatest merit is that, almost alone among modern Jewish thinkers, he has returned to the intensely personal dialogue with God that is characteristic of the Old Testament and existed among the sages and rabbis before the Middle Ages. In their writings God often sounds like a member of the family to be submitted to but nonetheless argued with: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," said Job, "but I will maintain mine own ways before...
...faith, says Buber, must' walk the narrow ridge, "avoiding the abyss of self-affirmation on the one hand and self-denial on the other." Author Friedman cites a Hasidic saying: "Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pockei are to be the words: 'For my sake the world was created,' and in his left: 'I am dust and ashes...