Shri Abraham is revered as a primordial master in many religious traditions, particularly in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He is known as the forefather of the 12 tribes of Israel and is considered a spiritual master because of his deep faith, devotion, and unwavering belief in God.
Born in the city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia, Shri Abraham was called by God to leave his home and travel to a land that would later be known as Canaan. He obeyed this call, leaving behind his family and everything he knew, and embarked on a journey of faith and trust in God.
Throughout his life, Shri Abraham demonstrated his unwavering faith and devotion to God. He was tested many times and faced numerous challenges, but he never wavered in his belief or obedience to God. He was a man of integrity and honor, and he lived a life of service and devotion to God.
Shri Abraham is also remembered for his deep compassion and kindness. He was a loving husband to Sarah and a devoted father to his son, Isaac. He was known for his hospitality and was always ready to offer help and comfort to those in need.
One of the most well-known stories about Shri Abraham is his willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. This act of obedience and faith is considered a testament to his unwavering devotion to God and is still remembered and revered today.
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"The sense for the 'miracles of everyday' is the sense for the holiness of life." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
"Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
"Faith is not a sentimental longing for a departed world; it is an active response to a living God." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"Prayer is not a substitute for action; it is an action for which there is no substitute." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
"The purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The purpose of prayer is to praise, to thank, to adore, to celebrate." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man's Quest for God
"The opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
"To be human is to be involved in the concerns of others." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"The Jew is a person who resists being leveled into a mere statistic." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom
"The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
"The essence of Judaism is in its passionate commitment to the pursuit of justice, compassion, and peace." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
"The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?
"Man is a being in search of meaning." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"We must learn how to articulate our faith in terms that will be understandable to others, how to translate the ancient ideas into the language of the present." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom
"We must constantly remind ourselves that religion is not an abstraction but a way of life." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Between God and Man
"Racism is a blasphemy; it is a denial of the existence of God." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?
"The prophets were human, but what made them prophets was that they spoke for God, not for themselves." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
"The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not
"Religion is an answer to man's ultimate questions." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"The great mystery of our time is not that we are all sinners but that we are all saints." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?
"The most important aspect of prayer is not to ask God for something but to praise Him." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man's Quest for God
"The person who does not have moments of awe, wonder, and radical amazement before the world in which he lives is as good as dead." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"When we are true to our own tradition, we are not copying, we are not imitating, we are discovering." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom
"The question is not what man expects from God, but what God expects from man." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, and falsehood." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
"One of the most vital aspects of Judaism is the sense of the preciousness of life." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
"The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane human situation, for in the search for God, one discovers man." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?
"The measure of a person is not in his achievements but in his sense of wonder." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom
"To be a Jew is to protest against injustice and to strive for the improvement of society." - Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom
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