ב"ה
Daat Elyon & Daat TachtonKnowledge Base » Torah, The » Kabbalah & Chassidism; Mysticism » Chassidism » Concepts in Chassidic Philosophy » Daat Elyon & Daat Tachton
|
|
|
Sort by:
|
|
|
Daat Elyon & Daat Tachton: (lit. "higher understanding" and "lower understanding"); respectively, (a) the G-d-like perspective from which the spiritual world is perceived as reality, and this world a mere echo of it; (b) the opposite, earthbound perspective.
Related Topics
Ahavat Yisrael (319)
Animal Soul & G-dly Soul (237)
Divine Providence (311)
Four Kingdoms (61)
Garments of the Soul (45)
Giver and Recipient (81)
Kelipah (121)
Knowledge of G-d (42)
Love & Awe of G-d (396)
Ayin (8)
Oneness of G-d (137)
Perpetual Creation (59)
Ratzo V'Shov (25)
Tohu & Tikkun (41)
Tzaddik, Rasha & Beinoni (182)
Tzavta V'chibur (14)
The Question that Everyone Asks
Three classical approaches to the paradox of divine knowledge and human choice in the light of chassidic philosophy
Parallel universes, supernatural phenomena, and a world where good always prevails. Is this Grimm's fairy tales, or a chassidic text?
“Rebbe, I don’t understand,” the disciple asked. “When you were here, your prayers protected us. But now that you are in heaven—and your spiritual power is even greater—all these terrible things are happening . . .”
Twice Moses states in our Parshah that "there is none else"--that nothing exists aside from G-d. Are these just words, or do they mean something that we can understand?
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks is a philosophy graduate of Cambridge University. He tells the following story. After graduating, he spent some time studying in yeshiva at Kfar ChaBaD in Israel. On one occasion, he was studying Hassidism with a chassidic s...
We're both working on the same puzzle. But my daughter's knowledge flows from the picture to the fragment while my knowledge flows from the fragment to the picture....
In the union of man and woman shines the essence of all that is holy and divine.
The Jewish take on creatures that have their own mind
Isn’t everything predetermined by the mechanics of the universe? I’m just a programmed machine; how can I be blamed for being what I am? Since G-d knows the future, what choice do we have in it?
Or, The Kabbalah of Boating
The souls of the masters are called the "Fish of the Sea," swimming in the Ocean of Higher Reality... that's where you find the depth of life, expanded consciousness, absolute concepts and the never-ending beauty of inner soul
When there are multiple meanings of a Hebrew word, they must be connected in some way.
| |
 |