I can deeply understand this in a direct and personal way, but it is not merely for the Hebrew mystic. Other curious and impassioned people discover the way of reverent ecstacy… in fact, it is known to most children…

“For the Hebrew mystic, unlike his Buddhist or Greek cousins, desire and longing are sacred. Eros is the yearning force of being. I yearn therefore I am. To be cut off from the eros of yearning is to be left in the cold of non-existence. To yearn is to be aflame.”

— Marc Gafni