The Key is Study"Well, the key, we believe, is study — study of Hasidic philosophy — which talks at great lengths about spirituality and godliness. "In Chabad, the key which opens the door is prayer. The key which Rabbi Schneur Zalman developed was a system called Hit Bononut, which means contemplation. We study a work of Hasidic philosophy that deals with spirituality and godliness. Then, before you sit and pray, you contemplate a particular idea from Hasidic philosophy. After you contemplate, you pray and the emotion flows within the structure of the prayer," he explained. Rabbi Eliezrie clarified that all the ideas of Hasidic thought are not new ideas to Judaism, but rather that the Hasidim — those who practice Hasidic Judaism — reemphasized ideas that often existed already within Jewish philosophy. The Hasidim developed a number of these ideas, revealing them more to the average public. The concepts, ideas, and philosophies of the Hasidim have existed throughout the Jewish mystical tradition. However, what the Hasidim did was to popularize these ideas and make them more widely known because there was a spiritual need in the Jewish religion. |
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