' Attachment to physical reality '...

"A man must separate himself from all attachment to physical reality,

said the Maggid,

until he rises through all the spiritual worlds and becomes one with God,

his own individual existence having been annihilated.

Then he is really called man."




Rabbi Dov Baer
in Alan Unterman
The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics
NY: New Directions, 1976, p. 54