Leap Of Action Poem by gershon hepner

Kierkegaard declared that everyone must make
a leap of faith, but A. B. Heschel said that Jews
must make a leap of action. Faith can be opaque
compared with action, squared on its hypotenuse
when Jews triangulate. Here is the theorem:
When Jewish angles joined by action are acute,
the Jews opposing them who are obtuse condemn
the angles that, although they’re right, they can’t refute.

Inspired by Abraham Joshua Heschel’s statement in God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (New York: 1955, p.283) :

A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of faith. He is asked to surpass his needs, to do more than he understands in order to understand more than he does.

9/2/08