Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow

Arthur Green

2002

To be human is to remember. To lose memory is to lose a piece of ourselves. To lose all of memory is one of the great human tragedies; some part (though surely not all) of the divine light within us goes out with loss of memory. We remember our own lives as individuals, and each person’s uniqueness develops over time out of the memories that he or…

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Arthur Green

b. 1941
Arthur Green grew up in New Jersey. An ordained Conservative rabbi, Green was the founder of Havurat Shalom Community Seminary. He later served as dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and as rector of the rabbinical school at Boston’s Hebrew College. A student of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Green’s field of scholarly research is Hasidism and mysticism. He has received several awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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