Hit'lahavut and D'vekut: Terms for Further Study

Terms for Further Study The following terms are worth looking up in the indices of your burgeoning library. These terms are selected with the assumption that they are core, essential ideas to help us to understand our place in the universe as lived through the Jewish Holydays. In addition, these themes and metaphors are not only helpful in the development of our own spiritual development but transparent (as in the transparencies in physiology textbooks that overlap the different systems over the body) to themes of science, of the body, of emotional-psychological experience, of relationship, parenting, and family and community living. lahav flame firing, ardor, en-theos-iasm D'vekut devek glue attaching/ connecting structure forming Hit'lahavut V'Devekut ardor and cleaving, passion and commitment ardor (from the word lahav, flame) and cleaving (from the word devek, glue. These twin qualities were considered essential by the Hasidim of the Baal Shem Tov.