ABSTRACT
Some religions do not regard our sojourn on earth as true life. Judaism, on the contrary, teaches that what a man does now and here with holy intent is no less important, no less true. This doctrine has found its fullest expression in Hasidism. God’s grace consists precisely in this, that he wants to let himself be won by man, that he places himself, so to speak, into man’s hands. God wants to come to his world, but he wants to come to it through man. According to Rabbi of Kotzk, God dwells wherever man lets him in. The ultimate purpose is to let God in. But we can let him in only where we really stand, where we live, where we live a true life.
