Who Needs Some Heschel?

From The Chronicles of New York City by JR

“Man is the playground for the unpredictable emergence and multiplication of needs.”

These words of Abraham Joshua Heschel echoed as I looked at my pile of laundry this morning and wondered at the tremendous amount of clothes I own. In the bible a set of clothes was one of a person’s most valuable possessions.

“We usually fail to discern between authentic and artificial needs” Heschel continues…