rationalfrummie, you don’t seem to know anything about Heschel’s influence at JTS. He had none. He was an outsider–a chossid in a misnagdishe rationalist institution. Never made it to full professor. He didn’t have the power to change the place. They resented him because they were doing academic scholarship and failed to have a global influence, whereas he wrote about God and succeeded. But internally at JTS? He was a nobody.
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