{"id":84723,"date":"2020-12-09T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=84723"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:20:55","slug":"a-mystical-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-mystical-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mystical Moment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"84723","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"630","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Experiencing the divine\r\n\r\n","content":"

\u201cGod, You are my God; I search for You, my soul (<\/span>nafshi<\/span><\/em>) thirsts for You, my body (<\/span>b\u2019sari<\/span><\/em>) yearns for You, as a parched and thirsty land that has no water. I shall behold You in the sanctuary and see Your might and glory\u201d (2-3).<\/span><\/p>\n

Our psalm is attributed to David during his sojourn in the wilderness of Judah while fleeing from King Saul. If, as we have noted previously, this attribution is literary rather than historical, then it is possible that the Judean Desert was chosen as its location due to the reference to \u201ca parched and thirsty land that has no water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether Davidic or otherwise, the opening verses of this psalm have become emblematic of a type of religious practice that, in Judaism, is identified with the Kabbalah, in general, and Hassidim, in particular. Generally called \u201cmysticism,\u201d it has been described by scholars and practitioners alike as \u201c<\/span>cognitio dei experimentalis<\/span><\/em>,\u201d knowing God through experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the \u201csanctuary\u201d (3), David, of course, could not have seen the Temple so Rashi identified it with the Tabernacle at Shiloh (see <\/span>our comments to Psalm 61<\/span><\/a>). Ibn Ezra\u2019s resolution is that \u201cI imagined seeing you as though I were in a sanctuary,\u201d Radak\u2019s is to neutralize the sanctuary into \u201ca holy place,\u201d and both agreed that the \u201cmight and glory\u201d refer to the Holy Ark. Malbim seems to have agreed with Ibn Ezra, explaining the \u201csanctuary\u201d as divine inspiration (<\/span>ru\u2019ach<\/span> ha-kodesh<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":84724,"id":84724,"title":"ps63-eye seeing God","filename":"ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-mystical-moment\/ps63-eye-seeing-god\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps63-eye-seeing-god","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":84723,"date":"2020-12-09 11:20:36","modified":"2022-11-27 12:33:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"A Mystical Moment\u00a0","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Experiencing the divine","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":84724,"id":84724,"title":"ps63-eye seeing God","filename":"ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-mystical-moment\/ps63-eye-seeing-god\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps63-eye-seeing-god","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":84723,"date":"2020-12-09 11:20:36","modified":"2022-11-27 12:33:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84725,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84723\/revisions\/84725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}