Ocupation: Rabbi
Life: January 11, 1907 - December 23, 1972
Birthday: January 11
Death: December 23
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
source: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.114, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
topic: Spiritual, Mean, Maturity, Age Wisdom