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'To read Martin Buber is to encounter an extraordinary soul - and to risk changing your life... Unique, exhilarating, profound.' - David Wolpe, author of Why Be Jewish? 'This is a delightful book. In its brief compass Martin Buber has distilled the essence of Hasidic wisdom.' - Jewish Review
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is comprised of several short essays that are each about ten pages or so in length. It is difficult to explain exactly what the book talks about. But it basically is a series of discussions about what our lives mean in relation to G-d. Why we are here on this planet, how you can think of your life and the lives of others, and lessons from other great Jewish thinkers about these same topics. I read this book, which is tiny and small, maybe 80 or so pages, and it changed my life. It opened for me a new way to explore my Jewish identity that was discrete from the mechanics of the religious observances. I am now very interested in Jewish philosophy and epistemology and want to read further. I would highly, highly recommend this book to anyone, Jewish or not.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book is very small, only 33 pages long, but it is a great outline of hasidism and its thoughts on how people are best able to live in a fulfilled way with others and before God. Taking us through each step, using traditional tales of the chassidim to illustrate clearly, Buber presents what he believes 'the way of man' is (meaning how people can flourish in the world before God). It is indeed a book about how to truely be yourself in fullness. Rabbi Zusya is quoted "In the world to come I shall not be asked: "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked "Why were you not Zusya?" ".
The book is not at all difficult to read, and certainly not just for hasidic jews. I am not, and I still find Buber enormously enjoyable to read and insightful. I would also highly recommend his book 'Between Man and Man' to anyone interested in Buber's social philosophy.
The book is not at all difficult to read, and certainly not just for hasidic jews. I am not, and I still find Buber enormously enjoyable to read and insightful. I would also highly recommend his book 'Between Man and Man' to anyone interested in Buber's social philosophy.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
short but powerful taste of Jewish philosophy
30 Dec 1997
Format:Paperback
This book is comprised of several short essays that are each about ten pages or so in length. It is difficult to explain exactly what the book talks about. But it basically is a series of discussions about what our lives mean in relation to G-d. Why we are here on this planet, how you can think of your life and the lives of others, and lessons from other great Jewish thinkers about these same topics. I read this book, which is tiny and small, maybe 80 or so pages, and it changed my life. It opened for me a new way to explore my Jewish identity that was discrete from the mechanics of the religious observances. I am now very interested in Jewish philosophy and epistemology and want to read further. I would highly, highly recommend this book to anyone, Jewish or not.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
short and sweet
2 Sep 2001
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41 pages of wisdom from the standpoint of Hasidism (from "hasidut": allegiance, piety)--but Hasidism seen through the heart of Martin Buber.
This too-brief book really asks only one question: why are we here?
Buber responds with thoughts, anecdotes, and reflections, all of it extraordinarily condensed and yet marvelously lucid.
Here are two quotations:
"Our treasure is hidden beneath the hearth of our own home."
"Man was created for the purpose of unifying the two worlds. He contributes towards this unity by holy living, in relationship to the world in which he has been set, at the place on which he stands."
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
From the Existential to the Spiritual
12 Feb 2004
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Martin Buber has a way of speaking to my heart. He speaks as a human who has always struggled with the cynicism and skeptical spirituality of our age. Yet he has retained a strong faith in God, and a strong faith in God's real presence in our struggling human everyday life. We may not always feel His presence...but in Buber's words we hear another's testimony that God is with us even when He seems absent. In these short parables, Buber introduces us to other humans...ordinary men...who likewise have struggled to walk with God. Their walk is grounded in the existential. But unlike other ways such as Zen, their walk gradually reveals the real presence of God who has been walking with us since day one. It is as if in our faithful walk God gradually becomes trulu felt as walking beside us...and in our hearts.
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