4 min
Interview
The Eternal Light
Four minutes of television from his own seminary, and the shortest way to hear him.
About the teacher
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Polish-born American rabbi and one of the great Jewish theologians of the twentieth century (1907–1972). He taught Jewish mysticism and ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote The Sabbath and God in Search of Man, and marched at Selma with Martin Luther King, holding that prayer and protest are the same obligation.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
47 min
Talk
At UCLA, 1963
The earlier of his two recorded UCLA lectures, from May 1963.
75 min
Talk
At UCLA, 1968
An hour and a quarter of him speaking in May 1968, from UCLA's own film archive.
57 min
Documentary
Spiritual Audacity
The full 2021 documentary on his life, from Warsaw to Selma, posted by the company that made it.
Path
The wider context.
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Concealment & the hidden light
Kabbalah
The Jewish mystical tradition centred on hidden dimensions of scripture and the nature of the divine, often explored through symbolic systems such as the Tree of Life.
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