Tsimtsoum

There is a form of Hebrew meditation, discretely handed down over the centuries from master to disciple. Marc-Alain Ouaknin here introduces us to the core of this practice derived from Jewish mysticism, in particular by focusing on the history and spirit of a movement which has renewed the profound depths of the current of Jewish thought: Hasidism. He shows how Hasidic masters, devout bearers of a wisdom of uncertainty, developed an art of interpreting texts in which man invents and transforms himself internally, a process during which he creates new meanings. The art of open reading which leads man “to step back” within himself - Tzimtzum - as God withdrew during the Creation of the world.