Tag: Martin Buber – I and Thou
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Shabbat shalom
We desire to possess God; we desire a continuity in space and time of possession of God. We are not content with the inexpressible confirmation of meaning, but want to see this confirmation stretched out as something that can be continually taken up and handled, a continuum unbroken in space and time that insures our…
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Shabbat shalom
(for all the religions necessarily appeal to some kind of revelation, whether through the medium of the spoken word, or of nature, or of the soul: there are only religions of revelation) Martin Buber, I and Thou, translated by Ronald Gregor Smith, Scribner Classics, 2000 (1958), 107. Image: Detail of an image of the stained…
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Shabbat shalom
The eternal Thou can by its nature not become It … and yet in accordance with our nature we are continually making the eternal Thou into It, into some thing – making God into a thing. Martin Buber, I and Thou, translated by Ronald Gregor Smith, Scribner Classics, 2000 (1958), 106. Image: Detail of an…
Matters of Interpretation 