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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Orent, Joel, Rabbi, 1930-2021

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1966

Volume: 10 item(s); 11 pg(s)

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Biography

Joel Orent was an ordained Jewish rabbi who writes to Merton about the possibility of exploring Buddhist and Catholic monastic traditions. He made some inquiries into living with some Catholic monastic communities. He first writes to Merton from New York, and later from Hollywood, California.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/10/10 HLSto MertonAbout six months ago, a friend who has visited with you in Gethsemani came to my room and spoke,   
 1963/10/29 TAL[c]from MertonAbout your recent letters. They seem to me to be overwrought. Are you putting your imagination   
 1964/02/11 TAL[c]from MertonAbout the romantic sehnsucht question. I would say first of all that it cannot be cured   
 1964/06/24 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the two long letters and the poems. I am sorry for not having answered, but as I suppose   
 1964/09/23 TAL[c]from MertonIf I tell you that I am sitting down to try to answer some twenty to thirty letters that have been   
 1964/10/16 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the letters and the poems. I think that the poems really look good and the idea   
 1964/12/17 TL[c]from MertonThis is just a hasty note to say I am very glad to hear you have got out of the hospital. I am glad   
 1965/06/20 TL[c]from MertonJust a word of thanks for telling me about Buber's death, I rely on friends for this kind of news   
 1965/12/06 TAL[c]from MertonYou write me that you are thinking of taking up your dissertation once again, and you remind me   
 1966/01/06 TL[c]from MertonI have been trying to find some kind of answer to your request to put you in touch with someone who   
        

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