Sublime

the quest to disseminate mystical knowledge within an intellectualist framework, thereby forging a synthesis of the ecstatic and the scientific, the mystical and the philosophical.

the religious philosophy that may be elicited from the body of his thought is not only conceptually sophisticated but daringly innovative.

when the essence is garbed in the Torah, it can be comprehended.

The only truth that may be observed is truth garbed in the appearance of truth.

the study of Ḥabad requires a hermeneutic based on a notion of time at odds with the linear conception under-girding this comment.

the integration of opposites is not “the coalescence and obliteration of distinctions,” but rather “the belonging together of what is foreign”

my hermeneutic belief that by digging into the soil of a specific cultural matrix one may uncover roots that lead to others.

a hyperliteral reading of the rabbinic dictum that the wicked are called “dead” even in their lives, whereas the righteous are called “living” even in their deaths.

the conjunction of the Jew to the light of Ein Sof, a monopsychic state that summons the eradication of ontic difference, biṭṭul ha-yesh, a blurring of the boundary between finite and infinite.91