A selection of the writings of Abraham J. Heschel, professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The book is valuable not only for the Jewish reader, for whom it was written, but also to the vast number of non-Jews for whom the rich theological and devotional life of the modern synagogue is largely unknown. The work is more than a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Judaism. It translates the full range of Biblical ideas and values into modern idiom. It has been described as "an intelligent, mature and well-reasoned attempt to create a viable synthesis between the devotion and learning of traditional Judaic thought and the philosophy and scholarship of Western civilization."