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Article: Buber: Mysticism Without Loss of Identity.(philosopher Martin Buber)
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- January 1, 2000
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"He (the hasid) elevates their needs before he satisfies them."
Martin Buber, My Way to Hasidism [1]
MORDECAI MARTIN BUBER, THE FOREMOST OF MODERN Jewish thinkers known to the world at large, was born in Vienna in 1878. At the age of three, when his mother disappeared without a trace, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Lvov, where he and his grandfather, Solomon Buber, a scholar of the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, prayed with the hasidim. At eighteen Buber entered the University of Vienna where he became interested in religion, especially Christian mysticism; Buber's doctoral dissertation, "From the Problem of Individuation: Cusanus and ...