Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

ISBN-13: 9780415282697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 98 str.

Martin Buber;Martin Buber;Olga Marx

Opis

For there is no rung of being on which we cannot find the holiness of God everywhere and at all times. The sacred tales and aphorisms collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards the divine via ascending rungs of perfection. Through Biblical riddles and interpretations, Jewish proverbs and spiritual meditations by turns profound, fanciful and tender, they seek to awaken in the reader a full awareness of the urgency of the human condition, and of the great need for self-recognition and spiritual renewal. Progressing from The Rung of God and Man through to the ultimate Rung of Redemption, Ten Rungs provides a profound, exquisite insight into the mystical piety and joy that defines Hasidic lore.

The sacred tales and aphorisms collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards the divine by ascending rungs of perfection. Through Biblical riddles and interpretations, Jewish proverbs and spiritual meditations, they seek to awaken in the reader a full awareness of the urgency of the human condition, and of the great need for self-recognition and spiritual renewal.

Spis treści

The Rung of God and Man -- The Rung of Prayer -- The Rung of Heaven And Earth -- The Rung of Service -- The Rung of The Teachings -- The Rung of The Way -- The Rung of Love -- The Rung of Good And Evil -- The Rung of Pride And Humility -- The Rung of Redemption -- Notes -- INDEX.

O autorze

Martin Buber (1878-1965) has been described as the greatest religious thinker of the twentieth century, and was as influential to Christian theology as to Jewish philosophy. A prolific commentator on topics as diverse as art, sociology, education and religious philosophy, and was the author of I and Thou, The Way of Man and Good and Evil