Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
New Books in Secularism
In the Streams of Wisdom
To be present is to look on where you are on all those levels. He was very much interestedin the condition the jewish people and in the condition of humans, of modern humans. In one of the lines that i will now translate roughly into english, says, inte in the streams of wisdom flows oryou find the waters of craziness. And he saw how a telegraph and an masmedia can recruit thousands of people to t to the most awful er. So, so you see, this is the present. The present is spiritual, but also very social and very much e connected to your own group, but very much, also generally human.
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