Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

How, oh how, could I have made it through the twentieth century and never heard the name Abraham Joshua Heschel? When I sat down to watch this documentary I had no idea who he was. Now that I have seen it I have realized that he was one of the most important figures of our time.

The makers of this documentary seem to hit just the right note. It brought in leading lights in the Civil Rights struggle as well as historians to tell the story of this remarkable man. The core of his beliefs seems to have been injustice anywhere means injustice everywhere. As he said, when there is an injustice only a few are guilty. We are all responsible.

It's been decades since Abraham Joshua Heschel has left us. The tired world is still spinning on its axis, but not as sweetly as it did when Heschel was a part of it. After seeing Spiritual Audacity, although I have reached an age that he never achieved, I will do what I can to take up his banner.