Schocken, Goethe’s Faust and Rabbi Nahman |
Salman Schocken died alone in one of Switzerland’s
hotel rooms, clutching two outstanding books,
Reb Nahman’s stories, Goethe’s Faust, in his two hands,
as if kabbalah and Kultur, contrasting cooks
this literary broth for him prepared.
Goethe I can understand, but what
was it that Schocken found in Nahman, that he shared
his fatal final moments with a man a lot
of Jews who are assimilated........