Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays Book

	Introduction
	To Be a Jew: What Is It?	3
	The Moment at Sinai	12
	Existence and Celebration	18
	Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah	33
	Israel as Memory	40
	We Cannot Force People to Believe	44
	A Time for Renewal	47
	Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul	54
	The Meaning of Repentance	68
	On the Day of Hate	71
	No Time for Neutrality	75
	Symbolism and Jewish Faith	80
	The Spirit of Jewish Prayer	100
	Toward an Understanding of Halacha	127
	Yom Kippur	146
	Teaching Religion to American Jews	148
	Jewish Theology	154
	The Mystical Element in Judaism	164
	A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation	185
	God, Torah, and Israel	191
	The Meaning of This War (World War II)	209
	The Plight of Russian Jews	213
	The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age	216
	Required: A Moral Ombudsman	219
	The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement	224
	In Search of Exaltation	227
	A Prayer for Peace	230
	No Religion Is an Island	235
	Choose Life!	251
	On Prayer	257
	The God of Israel and Christian Renewal	268
	What Ecumenism Is	286
	What We Might Do Together	290
	Reinhold Niebuhr	301
	An Analysis of Piety	305
	The Holy Dimension	318
	Faith	328
	Prayer	340
	The Biblical View of Reality	354
	Death as Homecoming	366
	App. Interview at Notre Dame	381
	App. Carl Stern's Interview with Dr. Heschel	395
	Notes	413
	Sources	423
	Acknowledgments	427