Challenges Faces By Following Convictions

Martin Buber was a very well respected man in his time. This was mostly due to the fact that he dedicated much of his time into helping others in finding purpose in life and gain knowledge about religion, both in teaching children and adults. Buber never did try to completely alter other peoples ideas but rather build upon them and reconstruct them to get to be able to share points of view mutually which proved to be an effective style. Overall Buber rarely faced people who challenged him for what he believed in, mainly because Buber was hardly confident in himself and wouldnt try to override someone else on their opinion. However, Martin Buber did indeed often face personal struggles. He often had a feeling of homesickness from something he could never grasp. He wasn't sure what it might have been, but it may be a sense of attraction toward, and fear of mysticism and parapsychology. Buber often faced feelings of fear, guilt, anxiety, loneliness, and sensitivity. Martin Buber has a very serious and mature attitude toward most all aspects of life. Buber, through all his hard work, often limited his ability by being too careful, shy, or fearful, he often did not believe in himself due to his unique views at this time. When under stress Buber often became overly focused on himself in his own little world. Through Buber's work he often had but shifts on being concerned about him self and being concerned with others needs, rights, and opinions about him. Aside from his own personal conflicts, there's one other minor problem faced by Buber with others. Until the actual establishment of the state of Israel, the nature of the future Jewish community in Palestine divided Zionism opinion. The idea of a sovereign political state was not shared among everyone. This was not a good thing because Zionism works around the idea of a movement of all Jewish people to their homeland and resumption of Jewish sovereignty in Israel. Buber was overall associated with the trend in Zionism that was wary of having political sovereignty, Buber was worried that this goal would develop an arrogant type personality in his people that come up during World war 1, this was a big struggle for him as he did not want to destroy the morals and ideas of his own religion but did not want to get into trouble and go through the suffering in which they would if they'd followed their beliefs completely. This caused a lot of compromising as followers of religions tend to be very objective of what it stands for and often forget to look at the big picture, Buber worked to teach and educate to keep people in a peaceful state and not work towards trouble and was successful enough for what he could control.