THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 18, 1975 31
New Volume by Donald Moore on Martin Buber Is Extolled
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
Numerous books were
written about Martin
Buber. There is hardly an
ture was enriched by a vol-
encyclopedia which does not
contain an article about him
and his philosophy.
Recently this vast litera-
ume entitled "Martin
Buber, Prophet of Religious
Secularism" by Donald J.
Moore (Jewish Publication
Society of America: Phila-
delphia, 1974).
This new book is a com-
prehensive commentary on
Buber's religious and ethical
philosophy. It is objective
and unbiased though Father
Moore oftentimes ascribes
certain passages in Buber's
writings as referring to the
Christian religion. For in-
stance, Buber's statement
on the meaning of faith,
Father Moore regards that
it "basically describes the
faith of the Christian." The
statement reads: "The rela-
tionship of acknowledging
depends upon an act of ac-
ceptance of my entire being
of that which I acknowledge
to be true."
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He similarly considers
as Christian the passage:
"Love is the responsibility
of an I for a Thou . . . of
all who love, from the
smallest to the greatest
and from the blessedly
protected man whose life
is rounded in that of a
loved being, to him who is
all his life nailed to the
cross of the world, and
who ventures to bring
himself to the —de-eadful —
•to love all men."
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Father Moore quotes at
length Buber's famous
statement beginning with
the words "From my youth
onwards I have found in Je-
sus my great brother . . ."
However, these and the
other references to Chris-
tianity don't diminish the
importance, value, and fair-
ness of Father Moore's con-
scientiously written book.
As a matter of fact, Father
Moore discusses thoroughly,
competently and as afore-
mentioned without bias ev-
ery idea and every aspect of
Buber's philosophy.
What are some of these
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er's interpretation of Israel
as a "goy kadosh" — a holy
people. Stated briefly "This
means a people whose entire
life is hallowed by justice
and loyalty, a people that
exists for God and also for
the world."
Buber is famous for po-
pularizing Hasidism and
collecting Hasidic tales.
His single-sentence de-
scription of that movement
reads: "God can be beheld
in each thing and reached
through each pure deed."
His brief formulation of
the Hasid's credo is: "One
must serve God with one's
whole life, with the whole
of the everyday, with the
whole of reality."
The credo_ reminds us of
the Shemas "and thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with
all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy
might."
Buber, of course, de-
lighted in Hasidism's posi-
tive achievements and reli-
giousity. But he also was
cognizant of its weaknesses.
He was especially critical of
the so called zaddikim, the
miracle workers, who
claimed that through their
intervention "prayers are
borne above and blessings
brought below."
Buber is known not only
as an interpreter of Hasid-
ism, but also as the author
of the I-Thou philosophy.
Regarding the latter,
Buber relates this story.
In 1961, he received a let-
ter from Dag Hammar-
skjold, then Secretary-
General of the United Na-
tions, expressing a desire
to translate into Swedish a
Buber book — any the
philosopher would recom-
mend. Buber suggested "I
and Thou."
"He went to work imme-
diately," writes Buber. "In
To Buber, Kirkegaard's
conduct "rooted in a sublime
misunderstanding of God."
People who love each other,
Buber maintained, "bring
others toward the love with
which God loves His world."
Father Donald J. Moore's
"Martin Buber, Prophet of
Religious Secularism" is a
significant contribution to a
better understanding of
Martin Buber's world of
ideas.
MARTIN BUBER
the letter in which he in-
formed me of this, he de-
scribed this book as the 'key
work, decisive in its mes-
sage.' I received that letter
an hour after I had heard
the news of his death on the
radio. As was later reported
to me, even on his last flight
he was working on the tran-
slation of "I and Thou."
The concepts It and Thou,
Buber described poetically:
"The It is the eternal chry-
salis, the Thou the eternal
butterfly."
The It, according to
Buber, belongs to the realm
of experience. ". . . without
It man cannot live. But he
who lives with It alone is not
a man."
God, writes Buber, is the
"eternal Thou." He is ". . .
truly present when one man
clasps the hand of another."
And "He who truly goes out
to meet the world goes out
also to God."
Small wonder, then, that
Buber criticized Soren Kir-
kegaard, the Danish reli-
gious existentialist, for ren-
ouncing his fiancee,
"because he considered her
an obstacle to his love of
God."
Initial Issue of Moment
Shows Magazine's Promise
Fact and fiction, poetry
and commentative essays, a
challenging variety of cur-
rent literary material are
packed into the first issue of
Moment, the new magazine
founded by Leonard Fine
and Eli Wiesel.
Book reviews and ex-
cerpted writings, analyses
of Jewish attitudes on cur-
rent events, an introduction
to the history of Jewish
journalism in America —
these are but a few of the of-
ferings in the new 96-page
magazine.
Moshe Dworkin, the pub-
lisher of Moment, has set
into motion an undertaking
that has already received
impressive support from
several Jewish ranks.
An article of special in-
terest in this issue is Su-
san Dworkin's "A Song
for Women, in Five Ques-
tions." The essay defines
attitudes, with specifics on
traditional legacies, on
equal access to God, equal
opportunity for joy, equal
treatment by history,
equal access to power and
the question of respect.
Of primary importance in
this issue of Moment is the
exchange of letters on major
Israeli issues by Robert Al-
ter and Shlomo Avineri.
Under the title "Pride and
Paradox" the issues covered
relate to the basics of cur-
rent Israeli developments.
An article by Jack Riemer
relating to and including
two noteworthy ethical
wills, those of Rabbi Yit-
schak Kelman and Rabbi
Liebman Adler, add signifi-
cantly to the merits of the
new magazine.
Typographically attrac-
tive, easy to read, the new
magazine is expected to rise
to a hest-seller role in
American Jewish journal-
ism.
Inner Light
When an American says
he loves his country, he
means not only that he loves
the New England hills; the
prairies glistening in the
sun, or the wide rising
plains, the mountains, and
the seas. He means that he
loves an inner air, an inner
light in which freedom lives
and in which a man can
draw the breath of self-re-
spect. — Adlai E. Stevenson
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