#rabbiheschel — Public Fediverse posts

#MartinBuber: We cannot wipe out #evil, but can work to turn evil into good.
#BuckGhosthorse: “Fear is the door in the heart that lets evil spirits in.”
#RabbiHeschel: The Biblical answer to evil is not the #good but the #holy.
Counter evil w/ the #Sacred: that wh. is bigger than us. https://bit.ly/4yq4dk7
Image: Ben Wildfower, "Magnificat"
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#Aquinas’s favorite virtue was #magnanimity: “brave great dangers for great things:...common welfare, justice, divine worship....” #RabbiHeschel calls on all people: God demands every person to do #justice: it is the supreme commandment wh. cannot be fulfilled vicariously. https://bit.ly/4wvN6gS

#RabbiHeschel: "Asceticism was not the ideal of the biblical person. The source of evil is not in passion, in the throbbing ❤️, but in hardness of ❤️, in callousness & insensitivity." The prophets speak to the "imagination & passions, rather than to the cold approbation of the mind."* https://bit.ly/4dcxg2M

#Aquinas: “Brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is with me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about "urgency of justice” & “to do justice is what God demands of every person." bit.ly/3M5Nlw4
Photos: screengrab from #Junglekeeper Paul Rosolie #Endgame alert bit.ly/4oEdssu

#Aquinas: " #Compassion is the fire which the Lord has come to send on the earth"; #RabbiHeschel: "To sense the living God is to sense infinite #goodness, infinite #wisdom, infinite #beauty. Such a sensation is a sensation of #joy." Joy & celebration are integral to compassion. https://bit.ly/4kxtIcG

#RabbiHeschel: The Biblical answer to #evil is not the #good but the #holy ...Living in ‘the light of the face of God’ bestows on humans a power of #love that enables them to overcome the powers of evil." https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/14/rabbi-heschel-hildegard-of-bingen-on-dark-nights-holiness/

#Aquinas: We are to “brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is with me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about the "urgency of justice” & how “to do justice is what God demands of every person." https://bit.ly/4k240xm

#RabbiHeschel: “Forfeit the sense of #awe & the #universe becomes a #marketplace for you.” #ThomasBerry spoke of the same reality when he said that using the Earth as an object to be bought, sold & abused will destroy it & us. #SacredEarth #CommunityOfSubjectsNotCollectionOfObjects https://bit.ly/40lYRbG

#OttoRank: “the epitome of the irrational is the marvel of creation itself.” #RabbiHeschel reminds us “awe is the beginning of wisdom.” The #rational gives us #knowledge, and that is important; but wonder leads to #wisdom. https://bit.ly/3YZJ7Jw