Topic 5
Section outline
-
November 10, 2017
The Hasidic background of Heschel´s religious philosophy
“The Baal Shem dwelled in my life like a lamp, while the Kotzker struck like lightning.”
Samuel H. Dresner, Heschel, Hasidism, and Halakha. New York, 2002, pp. 36-83
Samuel H. Dresner, Heschel as a Hasidic Scholar, in: Abraham J. Heschel, The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov. Studies in Hasidism. Chicago and London, 1985, pp. vii-xlv
Milan Lyčka, A Quest for Holiness. The Hasidic Background of A. J. Heschel’s Philosophy of Religion (to be published in 2018)