Rab­bi Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel, heir to the great East­ern Euro­pean Hasidic tra­di­tion of trans­lat­ing the teach­ings of Jew­ish mys­ti­cal tra­di­tion into life, offered the same gifts to the spir­i­tu­al­ly alien­at­ed of moder­ni­ty. Trans­lat­ing the truths of the Bible into an acces­si­ble idiom, Hes­chel declared with urgency that there is ​“mean­ing behind the mys­tery,” and demand­ed that we treat life as a great work of art — to make life our great­est mas­ter­piece. Now, Rab­bi Mark Borovitz trans­lates Hes­chel for a new gen­er­a­tion. We who suf­fer the spir­i­tu­al bur­dens, not of pover­ty and per­se­cu­tion, but of afflu­ence and com­pla­cen­cy, need to be remind­ed once again that our lives mat­ter, that redemp­tion is pos­si­ble, and that God is close by. Dai­ly Life Lessons of Rab­bi Hes­chel is a guide to life in con­fus­ing, often depress­ing, times. The book is not an analy­sis or eval­u­a­tion or even an appre­ci­a­tion of Hes­chel. It is Rashi— a line-by-line com­men­tary on Heschel’s most impor­tant writings.