Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson

what I definitely believe is that the great religions, all of them and the great mystical traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, and so on, have central truths that they hold in common, and that these are a kind of wisdom that are not appreciated, unless one is brought up in a tradition that helped one see

them. And our tradition is dead against seeing

the diversity of the garb is essential. Otherwise, universalism is merely the polite face of smothering conformity, the gracious imposition of power. Not so the revelation offered here: universal and particular come together. Verbal and nonverbal mingle in every moment. God’s presence is prehended by observing (and imitating) God’s ways. Yet those

The more genuinely and characteristically Jewish an idea or doctrine is, the more deliberately unsystematic is it.