The holiness of God in Hasidic sayings

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	• Ten Rungs Martin Buber Schocken, 1987 - 127 pages average customer review:based on 1 review
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The holiness of God in Hasidic sayings

This is from the back jacket of the book.'The souls, relates a Hasidic legend, " descended from the realm of heaven to earth, on a long ladder.Then it was taken away .Now, up there, they are calling home the souls.Some do not budge from the spot, for how can one get to heaven without a ladder? Others leap and fall and leap again,and give up.But there are those who know very well that they cannot achieve it, but try over and over, and over again until God catches hold of them and pulls them up."
These tales and aphorisms selected by Buber from Hasidism are wise sayings that move and inspire, and hopefully move the reader to a greater sense of the holiness of God.

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'For there is no rung of being on which we cannot find the holiness of God everywhere and at all times' The sacred tales and aphorisms collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards the divine via ascending rungs of perfection. Through Biblical riddles and interpretations, Jewish proverbs and spiritual meditations by turns profound, fanciful and tender, they seek to awaken in the reader a full awareness of the urgency of the human condition, and of the great need for self-recognition and spiritual renewal. Progressing from The Rung of God and Man through to the ultimate Rung of Redemption , Ten Rungs provides a profound, exquisite insight into the mystical piety and joy that defines Hasidic lore. Yet, true to Martin Buber's own faith in the dialogic relation between men as a mirror of God's eternal presence with us, they never cease also to emphasize practical advancement and the central meaningfulness of earthly existence. 'No one can really be devout in relation to God, if he is not devout toward His creation And so, dear reader, these pages are not concerned with the mysteries of heaven, but with your life and mine, in this hour and the next.'

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