This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Orent, Joel, Rabbi".
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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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1962/10/10 |
HLS to Merton |
About six months ago, a friend who has visited with you in Gethsemani came to my room and spoke, |
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1963/10/29 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
About your recent letters. They seem to me to be overwrought. Are you putting your imagination |
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1964/02/11 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
About the romantic sehnsucht question. I would say first of all that it cannot be cured |
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1964/06/24 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for the two long letters and the poems. I am sorry for not having answered, but as I suppose |
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1964/09/23 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
If I tell you that I am sitting down to try to answer some twenty to thirty letters that have been |
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1964/10/16 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for the letters and the poems. I think that the poems really look good and the idea |
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1964/12/17 |
TL[c] from Merton |
This is just a hasty note to say I am very glad to hear you have got out of the hospital. I am glad |
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1965/06/20 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Just a word of thanks for telling me about Buber's death, I rely on friends for this kind of news |
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1965/12/06 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
You write me that you are thinking of taking up your dissertation once again, and you remind me |
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1966/01/06 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have been trying to find some kind of answer to your request to put you in touch with someone who |
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