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This commandment, known as “devekut,” is difficult to interpret. How does one cling to God? Mystics argue that this commandment demands an exceptional amount of discipline and effort.

The Kedushat Yom Tov shared a scene from his grandfather’s table: The hassidim who were sitting at the table were in such a lofty state of devekut (focused communion with the Almighty), that ...

The term devekut is often rendered in English as “cleaving.” Alas, using an English term that is not part of common speech hardly clarifies the experience being described. ABSORBED BY their ...

We live in interesting times. Years ago we ate many foods with nary a worry about health implications, and we survived. Today we overstress even regarding those foods that are seemingly harmless ...

“There’s a kind of clarity that happens.” He called this clarity devekut l’misima — a concept from the Israel Defense Forces, meaning “devotion to the mission.” “This began my ...

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Sometimes niggunim have words, often a fragment of liturgy or Torah — their popularity comes from a Hasidic devotional practice known as devekut — but they’re simple and repetitive enough to ...

One of the loftiest types of Chasidic nigunim is the “nigun devekut” (song of communion with God). These slow, contemplative melodies convey the experience of self-transcendence and union with ...

In Jewish mysticism, the most highly evolved Jewish mystics do not merge into God but they become so close to God that they are kind of “glued “ to God (the Hebrew word is devekut).