Faitel Levin

Logic provides “pigeonholes” into which concepts are placed. There exist a-priori logical notions such as sequence, hierarchy, cause and effect, etc., and it is by means of the a-priori “pigeonholes” these provide that ideas are structured, sorted and arr...

The thought system of Dirah Betachtonim has some terms and phrases peculiar to itself alone. In addition, terms and phrases used in other systems assume here new meanings and connotations. Often, precisely less obvious, more subtle changes of connotation ...

Our thoughts now turn to the nature of the human worshiper as he appears in Dirah Betachtonim, existentially as well as in behavior. We will look at both the unusual character of the mystical experience, as well as at the place of asceticism in this syste...

Metaphysicians throughout the ages have labored to define the relationship between G-d and reality. Not the issue of G-d creating this reality and communicating with it, nor the question of how humans ought to relate to G-d, utilizing our reality in a man...

Integral to Kabbalistic and Chasidic teachings is the belief that beneath the myriad individual and diverse entities that meet the eye lies one unifying cosmic reality. Chairs and tables, fields and meadows, oceans and mountains, animals and stars, are in...

The Dirah Betachtonim system, outlined in brief in the previous section, amounts to a total revolution in religious thinking. It does not merely shed light on some difficult theological problem, nor only add extra emphasis to some particular religious iss...

One of the aspects of Judaism that has most puzzled thinkers through the ages is the importance it attaches to specific modes of behavior. The Torah prescribes six hundred and thirteen obligations, many of them concerned with the minutiae of everyday life...

Since the dawn of his creation, man has been fascinated by the tensions that arise between his mind and body, between the spiritual and the physical, between the immediate and the transcendent. On the one hand, he finds himself operating through a variety...

This extraordinary book explores the drama of creation, the fusion of holiness inside the mundane, the spiritual role and function of Mitzvot, the afterlife, and much more.