The Day They Let G-d Back Into His World - A series in seven parts

A series in seven parts

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The Arizal provided the spark, the Baal Shem Tov the fuel, and Rabbi Schneur Zalman the structure and form. The result was a new paradigm that turned the Jewish world-view on its head. Everything had to be reconsidered.

Just as geophysicists eventually came to accept that continents had torn themselves apart, but have yet to explain how the planet was not blown to smithereens in the process, so in the story before us, it is at least as much a wonder how this new paradigm did not blow tradition out of the water. Somehow, on the contrary, it galvanized that received wisdom yet more.

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	Preface Why I wrote this
	Locked Out with a Great Chain 1st in a series on the revolution of chassidic thought It was not the hearts of Jewish believers, but the minds of Jewish philosophers, that could not find a place to fit such an infinite G‑d inside such a busy, messy, finite world. 4 Comments
	Plugged Back In 2nd in a series on the revolution of Chassidic thought Now, the tables were turned. The question was no longer how a perfect Creator could be involved in His imperfect world. The question was now, how could He not be? If He is not there, how could there be anything at all? 11 Comments
	Infinity Unchained Third in a series on the revolution of Chassidic thought The tables now turned, the great question arises: How do you fit an infinite G‑d in a decidedly finite world? The easiest answer was that G‑d could do anything. But that would not satisfy Rabbi Schneur Zalman. 1 Comment
	Ray 001, Where Are You? 4th in a series on the revolution of chassidic thought

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