Guest House Daily Reflections

Rabbi Abrham Heschel was a German-American rabbi, a leading Jewish theologian and philosopher of the 20th century.  For him true religion is living with the awareness that something is asked of us — that I am not self-sufficient but am judged by how I respond to that awareness and its demands. So, obedience not only makes me holy but fully human, a partner with God in his desire to continue creating the world in his image and likeness. “The deepest experience a human being can have is the experience that something is asked of him.”