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become Judaism’s most controversial proposition: that since mankind in its diversity cannot be reduced to a single image, so God cannot be reduced to a single faith or language. God exists in difference and thus chooses as His witness a people dedicated to difference.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Who succeeded in crossing the borders of this realm with good grounds, pure conscience, and obeying the law of love? Who among the living is Christ and journeys to Hell in living flesh? Who is it that expands the realm of Christ with Hell? Who is it that is full of drunkenness while sober? Who is it that descended from being one into being two? Who
... See moreC. G. Jung • The Red Book
the ultimate objective of esoteric learning is not to cultivate rational comprehension but to foster the obliteration of self,12 the modality of study involves the power of reason, and thus the term intellectual mysticism seems to me a fitting expression to characterize the orientation of the seventh Rebbe.
Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson
The book of Exodus here brings a key aspect of Jewish theology to light: for the accomplishment of divine aims, God chooses to need people.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
said:6 “There are those who serve God with their human intellect, and others whose gaze is fixed on Nothing.… He who is granted this supreme experience loses the reality of his intellect, but when he returns from such contemplation to the intellect, he finds it full of divine and inflowing splendor.”
Gershom Scholem • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
The more genuinely and characteristically Jewish an idea or doctrine is, the more deliberately unsystematic is it.
Gershom Scholem • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
But Heidegger wrote at length about the ‘darkening of the world’ (Weltverdüsterung) and argued that this was connected with the darkening of spirit (Geist).
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
Beyond the panentheistic and acosmic insights associated with the two levels of contemplation is the apophatic awareness of the divine enigma, the transcendence that is designated as the conjunction of the intention of the heart (devequt di-reu‘ta de-libba), a knowing that consists of the unknowing by which the Jewish soul attains the state of bein
... See moreElliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson
the faith of a man who has considered the very real possibility that chaos and bloodshed are simply all there is.