When Abraham Joshua Heschel died in 1973, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America crafted a memorial resolution that illuminated the profound duality of his legacy - as both a transformative Jewish philosopher and a tireless social activist. Through qualitative analysis of this institutional document published in Conservative Judaism, a complex portrait emerges of Heschel's nearly three-decade tenure at the Seminary, where he served as a vital bridge between the destroyed Eastern European Jewish communities and modern Jewish scholarship. The faculty's resolution emphasizes how Heschel simultaneously reinterpreted fundamental religious concepts for contemporary audiences while engaging in unprecedented interfaith dialogue and social justice advocacy. His scholarship made significant advances in Jewish intellectual history even as his public work reconnected younger generations with their religious heritage. The resolution's final reference to Heschel's uncompleted manuscript on the Kotzker rebbe symbolically links his life's work to the Hasidic tradition of spiritual elevation. This institutional memorial ultimately reveals the deep interconnections between Jewish theological scholarship and broader social engagement that characterized mid-20th century American Judaism.