Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997), The Holy Dimension, p. 330.
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Out of the world comes a behest to instill into the air a rapturous song for God, to incarnate in the stones a message of humble beauty.
— Abraham on Message
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About Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.
About Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.
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