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From Der Shem Hameforash Mensch

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In 1933 Warsaw, a teenage Abraham Joshua Heschel published a remarkable collection of Yiddish poems that would prefigure his entire philosophical legacy. "Der Shem Hameforash: Mensch" daringly connects the ineffable divine name with human existence, establishing at the outset of Heschel's career the radical theological vision that would influence twentieth-century Judaism. Through literary translation and theological analysis of eight key poems, particularly the intimate divine-human dialogue of "Ich un Du" (I and You), this study reveals how Heschel's adolescent verses blur traditional boundaries between sacred and mortal realms. The poems' exploration of divine empathy, human suffering, spiritual responsibility, and God-human interconnectedness demonstrates that Heschel's mature theological concepts—divine pathos, human dignity, and reciprocal divine-human relationship—were fully formed in his earliest works. Close textual analysis of the original Yiddish alongside English translations illuminates how this precocious collection laid the foundation for one of modern Judaism's most influential theological voices.

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    Published 1998

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    Abraham Heschel