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I and ThouToday considered a landmark of twentieth-century intellectual history, I and Thou is also one of the most important books of Western theology. In it,...Read More
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EdPlay, May 17, 2012
...on it in the breakout room? Work on a community project. Care about the world outside your lobby. Martin Buber said that the fastest way to overcome depression is to do something for someone else. In organizations, we often become so in-focused that we...
Reform Judaism Online, May 16, 2012
...the better I understand the deeper meaning of “being there” and grasp the sense of an experience that Martin Buber relates. A philosopher-colleague had spent a day as his house guest. The night before leaving, the two men sat in silence before the...
Haaretz, May 11, 2012
...exile. Auerbach was definitely a master correspondent. Among the hundreds of letters, Vialon noted a brief correspondence with Martin Buber, who resided in Jerusalem and asked Auerbach to write an introduction to the Hebrew edition of “Mimesis.”...
Jewish Chronicle, May 10, 2012
...hurl at his pessimistic brother with whom he is constantly battling: "Boomy! You listening? I'm reading from Martin Buber again. 'Rabbi Leib, son of Sarah, used to say about those rabbis who only expound the Torah that: a man should see to it that all...
Palestine Chronicle, May 7, 2012
...family of the late Edward W. Said, before being confiscated in 1948 when it was first given to Martin Buber, the Jewish philosopher. The ICEJ goes with Israel’s colonial land grab policy in occupied Palestine through thick and thin. Admittedly, it has...
Jewish News Weekly, May 3, 2012
...continuing transgressions of Israel, make it clear that we are dealing, in these chapters, with an ongoing struggle. Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig in fact insist that the term “kedushah,” or holiness, should be understood not as static essence...
Algemeiner.com, May 3, 2012
...answer is simple and deep: “Because each wants to occupy the place of the other.” In this vein, Martin Buber in Tales of the Hasidim tells a wonderful story about this special scholar. Rabbi Avraham once told his Hasidic disciples that they could...
STLtoday.com, March 2, 2012
...literary canon. Consider the lines above. Is there a better distillation of the I and Thou spirituality of Martin Buber than those lines? Certainly not one that a three-year old can understand. Or consider the Lorax. A few months ago, my son went through...
Middle East Monitor, March 2, 2012
...We can only assume that Nick Clegg and his Tory pals in the Coalition have never heard of Martin Buber, Judah Magnes and Arthur Ruppin, whose group, Brit Shalom, envisaged an Israel scenario very different from the exclusivist option now endorsed by the...
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, February 29, 2012
...that German Jews should practice Satyagraha, or non-violent resistance, to challenge the Nazi regime. The great Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, another supporter of Brit Shalom, penned an eloquent letter of rebuttal. ?I belong to a group of people,? he...
My Customer.com, February 29, 2012
...do that? Simple, in the game of business we treat people as objects that exist to create dollars; Martin Buber described this as the “I-it” orientation as opposed to the “I-Thou” orientation. What is the key takeaway of this post? We live in an...
Psychology Today, February 29, 2012
...to such persons as Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Lois Pasteur, Albert Schweitzer, Dorothea Dix, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pope John XXIII, Martin Buber, and Martin Luther King. Hardly anyone, however, would say that these persons' lives were marked by lots of fun"...
Business 2 Community, February 29, 2012
...do that? Simple, in the game of business we treat people as objects that exist to create dollars; Martin Buber described this as the “I-it” orientation as opposed to the “I-Thou” orientation. What is the key takeaway of this post? We live in...
Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2012
...many changes, he said, its mission was still the same as that decreed by its founders Albert Einstein, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann. First and foremost it is a research university specializing not only in basic sciences but also in applied sciences....
