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October 24, 2022

Heschel’s The Prophets

Dr. Dror Bondi

Dr. Dror Bondi

Dror Bondi is dedicated to bringing Abraham Joshua Heschel’s thought to Israel, translating his words into Hebrew and transforming Israel by his spirit. Dror has a doctorate in Jewish Thought from Bar-Ilan University and his dissertation, Heschel’s Hermeniutics, will be published next year. Dror has translated several of Heschel’s books into Hebrew. He is the author of Where Art Thou? which won the Shalem Prize in 2006. He lives with his family in Jerusalem in Beit Yisrael, an urban-kibbutz community of religious and non-religious Jews who unite together in social and spiritual activism.

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When Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), one of the greatest Jewish-American thinkers and social activists, understood that the Nazis were going to gain power, he decided to dedicate his PhD dissertation to the alternative of the ancient prophets of the bible. In 1962, he published an extended English version, which influenced MLK’s fight for civil rights in the US. How can the prophets help us today, in our new challenges? In this online class, we will read passages from this work in order to understand Heschel’s interpretation of the prophets as the source of his own actual philosophy and activism.

Note: Unfortunately, session 6 of 8 is unavailable.

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