Judaism for the Thinking Person

Abraham Joshua Heschel First Class: Gratitude, Awe, and Actually Connecting to God


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The vast majority of work on Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is academic:  summaries, clarification, footnotes and so on. In this series of classes, I'm here to show you how to live Heschel's religious philosophy, not understand it. In this first lecture, I show how one begins this process by first gathering three philosophies: 1) Schleiermacher, 2) Pragmatism, and 3) Phenomenology. With these basics, one is ready to identify what connecting to God looks like, whether you've ever done it yourself, and how it creates and informs Judaism.

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Judaism for the Thinking PersonBy Rabbi Nadav Caine

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