Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
By, Buber, Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Class No.: 296.19 BUB
Accession No.: 014728
Year: 2002
Pages: 96 p.

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The sacred sayings and short tales collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards God in rungs of ascending perfection. Through riddles and Biblical interpretations, Jewish proverbs and spiritual meditations both profound and tender, Buber seeks to awaken in the reader an awareness of the urgency of the human condition, and of the great need for spiritual righteousness and self-renewal.

TEN RUNGS imparts an exquisite glimpse of the mystical piety and joy that defines Hasidic lore. ‘No one can really be devout in relation to God, if he is not devout toward His creation… . And so, dear reader, these pages are not concerned with the next.