Heschel’s poetry
Unquestionably, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the great religious figures of the 20th century. He was also one of the most important social critics of his time: an outspoken civil rights advocate, anti-war activist, renowned philosopher, scholar, teacher and mystic. But in the beginning, and some would argue in the end, he was a poet. EVERY WORD HAS POWER: THE POETRY OF RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL celebrates Heschel’s words with a concert performance of ten of his poems…