"For the Torah has so many locks and keys, and each key is individual, each doorway is one's own. A person can be considered very fortunate if he finds the special key, the private door that is his to enter. Too often people just keep wandering about getting involved with other people's keys and doors; they make mistakes and get themselves confused and entangled in points of view not their own. The simplest solution is to be certain that one's connection to Torah exists. If one just lets attention be properly oriented, it is possible to feel that certain sentences in prayer, certain passages of scripture, have special appeal to oneself; they "speak" to you. Many jews will learn these passages by heart, becoming emotionally intimate with certain words that serve them as a doorway".
'Afterword: Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition' by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in 'Nine and a Half Mystics' by Herbert Weiner
'Afterword: Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition' by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in 'Nine and a Half Mystics' by Herbert Weiner
