Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a pre-eminent scholar, acclaimed spiritual writer, and prophetic activist. He was a professor of ethics and mysticism at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction by Edward K. Kaplan; Section I: Man Is Holy; Section II: Bearing Witness; Section III: To a Lady in Dream; Section IV: Between Me and the World; Section V: Nature Pantomimes; Section VI: Repairing the World.

"To discover that the religious philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel was a poet in his youth is both startling and indelibly self-evident—startling because the poems have so far eluded the anthologies; and at the same time familiarly manifest, in that Heschel's metaphysical writings themselves carry the impress of poetry. Like Herbert, like Donne, like Blake, he is God-haunted; his lyrics are steeped in the mystic's longing to tear away the curtain that conceals the divine radiance and (sometimes) God's tears." —Cynthia Ozick