Ḥabad follows the common Ḥasidic themes of devequt ("attachment"), ḥitlahavut ("enthusiasm"), and kawwana ("devotion"), but it elevates the importance of the intellect in spiritual endeavours.
"Everything I had known intuitively about the importance of play — to intellect, to joy, to vitality — was there," Ms. Stieglitz said.
But he rarely spoke about sports, preferring to stress the importance of the development of intellect in the making of a naval officer.
It is indeed a story about a world where books are outlawed and burned, but it is also a tale about the value of intellect, the importance of information and the singular, irreplaceable experience of reading books as books — as physical, palpable and precious objects.
Here was a new monument to the importance of instruments, not just sheer intellect, in pushing back the frontiers of science.
There may be a valuable lesson here for religious thinkers and religion scholars who believe that their work, regardless of its contemporary importance, is still held at arm's length in the worlds of intellect, scholarship and high culture.
The story shows us the power of individuals to change history, the power of intellect and imagination to transcend circumstance, and the importance of foresight in overcoming limits to human growth.
In New Bearings in English Poetry (1932) he attacked English late Victorian poetry and proclaimed the importance of the work of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, emphasizing wit and the play of intellect rather than late-Romantic sensuousness.
Susan's message about the importance of finding a husband with a similar intellect is a good message.
