The Ineffable Name of God: Man

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The 66 poems, published here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel was 26 years old and still a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Written between 1927 and 1933 - and never published in English before - this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings.

Genres: Poetry, Religion, Judaism, Jewish

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

Heschel was a descendant of preeminent rabbinic families of Europe, both on his father's (Moshe Mordechai Heschel, who died of influenza in 1916) and mother's (Reizel Perlow Heschel) side, and a descendant of Rebbe Avrohom Yehoshua Heshl of Apt and other dynasties. He was the youngest of six children including his siblings: Sarah, Dvora Miriam, Esther Sima, Gittel, and Jacob. In his teens he received a traditional yeshiva education, and obtained traditional semicha, rabbinical ordination. He then studied at the University of Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate, and at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, where he earned a second liberal rabbinic ordination.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fresh breath of new psalms to meditate on. Incredible.

[WallofText · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review for The Ineffable Game

It's a fun crossover romp but I found the characters to be acting rather unconvincingly compared to their canon equivalents and the general plot left more to be desired. The social media elements were by far my favourite!

[B. Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

heshel in poetry. he was already good in prose. "I and You" is terribly powerful poem of a vision of love and relationship.