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.
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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
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This is from the back jacket of the book.'The souls, relates a Hasidic legend, " descended from the realm of heaven to earth, on a long ladder.Then it was taken away .Now, up there, they are calling home the souls.Some do not budge from the spot, for how can one get to heaven without a ladder? Others leap and fall and leap again,and give up.But there are those who know very well that they cannot achieve it, but try over and over, and over again until God catches hold of them and pulls them up."
These tales and aphorisms selected by Buber from Hasidism are wise sayings that move and inspire, and hopefully move the reader to a greater sense of the holiness of God.
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