| The Psychology of Tzimtzum: Self, Other, and God Contributor(s): Rotenberg, Mordechai (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592643841 ISBN-13: 9781592643844 Publisher: Maggid OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| LCCN: 2017304095 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.80 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Western psychology often describes relationships between parent and child, individual and society, man's physical and spiritual urges as a complex set of conflicts, an ongoing struggle for dominance. In The Psychology of Tzimtzum, Professor Mordechai Rotenberg seeks to establish an alternative: a Jewish psychology, based on the kabbalistic concept of Tzimtzum (self-contraction). God's primordial act of Creation, contracting Himself to make room for the world, becomes for Rotenberg a model for all human interaction. When the self contracts to make room for the other, the resulting relations are ones of dialogue rather than conflict, self-effacement rather than self-assertion, a desire to give rather than a desire to destroy. The Psychology of Tzimtzum introduces the groundbreaking thought of Israel Prize laureate Professor Mordechai Rotenberg, the founding father of Jewish psychology. |