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  • Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

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    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969). “The Prophets”

  • Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

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    Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor (1995). “The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe”, p.14, Jewish Lights Publishing

  • A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

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    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969). “The Prophets”
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Abraham Joshua Heschel

  • Born: January 11, 1907
  • Died: December 23, 1972
  • Occupation: Rabbi
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