Example Story Two: Reb Zalman on Kedushat HaShem

“God’s name is ineffable,” Reb Zalman taught, “A name that can only be pronounced by breath—by living fully alive, by paying attention to our breath, to the expansion and contraction of our chests, to the give and take, to the rush of the waves approaching and receding from the shore, to the ratzo and shov, the attraction and repulsion as we encounter the kedushat HaShem—that awesome and awful sensation of the Great Silence, the silence of the One.”

—entry from Rabbi Moshe Waldoks [1.3]