“Hiding in Plain Sight: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber,”
Cafe Shaaray, Sunday, January 11 at 10 AM and repeated at Lunch and Learn, Monday, January 12 at Noon

Having written two books about Jewish thinker, Martin Buber, you can imagine my excitement over visiting his birthplace when I was in Vienna last week. While the plaque misstated Buber’s death by four years (he died in Jerusalem in 1965), and I have no idea who wrote the graffiti on the mailbox, I can say that his Jewish spiritual classic, I and Thou, released in 1923, continues to have great influence in our time.

That Vienna address was young Martin’s home until age three when trauma struck — his mother suddenly upped and left him and his father for Russia and a lover. Buber, widely known for exploring the spirituality of human relationships, attributes his insights to what he learned from the experience of being abandoned.

I will have more to say about Buber and his life and work at Cafe Shaaray, Sunday, January 11 at 10 AM, in “Hiding in Plain Sight: Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber,” in a program to be repeated Monday, January 12 at Noon as Lunch and Learn. I hope you can come to either one.

If you want to learn about Buber before our time together, you can get up to speed with one or both of my books, God in Our Relationships and A Year with Martin Buber. They are available through the Temple office, with a portion of sales supporting our TST teen programs.

I hope you are having a great Thanksgiving!
Rabbi Dennis Ross