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Three audio talks on Simone Weil by Brad Jersak delivered in May 2015 at a Soulstream contemplative retreat. Download or stream these talks here: https://soundcloud.com/brad-jersak/sets/simone-weil-an-astonishing-life?fb_action_ids=10152865288456905&fb_action_types=soundcloud%3Apublish 1. Simone Weil: An Astonishing Life 2. Waiting on God: Contemplation and Astonishment 3. The...
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Awaiting God combines a fresh translation of Simone Weil's Waiting for God and Letter to a Priest Attente de Dieu and Lettre un Religieux in one volume. These works are considered Weil's primary essays and letters. In addition, Simone Weil's niece has c...
AUDIOBOOK of Weil's 'Awaiting God' now available!!
Now available, my audiobook version of Simone Weil's 'Awaiting God' here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Religion-Spirituality/Awaiting-God-Audiobook/B00PUR1A34/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1416556606&sr=1-2
An interview with Eleanor Bron and Graeme Davies about the life of Simone Weil.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL - DVD
Educational / institutional versions of the DVD, AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL are still available at this website: http://www.linestreet.net/dvd.html.
Also available there: a Red Virgin T-Shirt!
Simone Weil: Awaiting God - Review by Ron Dart
Simone Weil: Awaiting God (Freshwind Press: 2013), Intro. by Sylvie Weil, Trans. by Bradley Jersak
There are many thoughtful thinkers who hold Simone Weil as high as the Holy Eucharist. There are others who think Weil lost her way in a distorted notion of inner and outer asceticism. Then there are those who truly take the time to heed and hear Weil, to welcome her probes into the depths of the soul, who weigh, in a judicious manner Weil’s insights and aberrations. Simone Weil: Awaiting God brings together some classical essays and letters by Weil, and a thoughtful and probing essay by Weil’s niece, Sylvie Weil. Brad Jersak’s Preface is more than worth the read as is his creative translations.
Most who read Simone Weil know little about her living niece, Sylvie Weil, but Sylvie Weil’s evocative and probing missive, At Home with Andre and Simone Weil (2010), brings into thoughtful dialogue fruitful and engaging reflections (with some surprising speculations) by Sylvie about her controversial aunt. Sylvie neither idealizes nor demonizes Simone Weil, but she does question some of her aunt’s dubious conclusions on a variety of topics. The article in Awaiting God by Sylvie Weil, “Simone Weil and the Rabbis: Compassion and Tzedakah”, is pure gold-----Sylvie certainly held her own against her demanding aunt in her many probes into the depths of the Jewish Tradition.
I mentioned above that Brad Jersak had done some innovative translations of Weil in the best tradition of dynamic equivalence. The essays Brad chose are quintessential Weil, and Weil’s Waiting for God was the well the essays were drawn from. The letters Brad has used reflect the unrelenting nature of Weil’s quest and the tough questions she insists on asking and pushing to their limits. The letters were from 1942 (when Weil was nearing the end of her life) and the final letter, “Letter to a Priest” is a must read keeper.
Simone Weil: Awaiting for God is a plough to soil book. Weil did have her limitations, but the good she offered should be gratefully received by one and all. T.S. Eliot wrote a fine Preface to Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots, and, in many ways, Eliot was a broader, deeper and subtler thinker than Weil, but he knew the makings of saint when he saw one, hence his generous Preface.
There can be no doubt Brad has been deeply impacted by Simone Weil, and his interactions with Sylvie Weil have enriched his understanding of Simone Weil.Simone Weil: Awaiting God is a book about what it means to be still, to await, to be receptive at a level few dare go. It is to such awaiting places that Weil points and the curious cannot help but travel.
Ron Dart
At long last, the hard copy of my new translation of Simone Weil's 'Awaiting God' is now available! You can purchase the book at the following link:
https://www.createspace.com/4183960
On that page there is also a description. Why get the book?
1. Sylvie Weil has included a 13-page introductory essay entitled 'Simone Weil and the Rabbis: Compassion and Tsedekah.'
2. It's the best primer available for those who want to start reading Weil, in that it combines her famous 'Waiting for God' with her 'Letter to a Priest' in a single, freshly translated volume.
'Awaiting God' is a fresh translation of two of Weil's works: Attente de Dieu (Waiting for God) and Lettre a un Religieux (Letter to a Priest). This edition features an Introduction by Weil's niece, Sylvie, entitled 'Simone Weil and the Rabbis: Compassion and Tsedekah' and a translator's preface by Weil scholar, Brad Jersak.
The book is available on Kindle and can be accessed by Kindle reader apps on any smart phone, tablet or computer.
Love III - George Herbert
LOVE
Love welcomed me, yet my soul recoiled
Guilty of lust and shame.
But love, clear-eyed, saw me hesitate
From my first entrance.
It approached me, asking gently
If I lacked something.
A guest, I responded, worthy to be here
Love said, You shall be he
Me, the unkind, the ungrateful? Ah! My love,
I cannot look at you!
Love took my hand and responded, smiling
Who made these eyes except me?
This is truth, Lord, but I have defiled them;
That my shame would go where it deserves.
And you know not, said Love, who took on the blame?
My love, then I will serve.
You must sit down, said Love, and taste my meat.
So I sat down and I ate.
Sylvie Weil - Simone Weil et les rabbins: compassion et tzedaka
Good news. As part of the forthcoming edition of Awaiting God (a fresh translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre à un Religieux), Sylvie Weil (Simone’s Niece) has contributed her fine essay, “Simone Weil et les rabbins: compassion et tzedaka,” to be translated into English for release as part of the Introduction. Pure gold! ETA: Dec. 1, 2012 through www.bradjersak.comand Amazon.
IN REVIEW ON KINDLE: Awaiting God by S. Weil (trans. Brad Jersak) w/ interview with Sylvie Weil.
Finished translating Attente de Dieu. Now to finish Lettre à un religieux. These, along with my interview with Sylvie Weil, will be compiled in my forthcoming book, Awaiting God, by Simone Weil (trans. Brad Jersak / Adit Gamble). Due out Dec. 1, 2012. Will be available at www.bradjersak.com.
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
"Faith is the experience of the intelligence illumined by love."