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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.
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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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