{"product_id":"9781613291252","title":"The Psychology of Tzimztum: Self, Other and God","description":"Western psychology often describes relationships – between parent and child, individual and society, man’s physical and spiritual urges – as a complex set of conflicts, an ongoing struggle for dominance. In The Psychology of Tzimtzum, Professor Mordechai Rotenberg seeks to establish an alternative: a Jewish psychology, based on the kabbalistic concept of Tzimtzum (self-contraction). God’s primordial act of Creation, contracting Himself to make room for the world, becomes for Rotenberg a model for all human interaction. When the self contracts to make room for the other, the resulting relations are ones of dialogue rather than conflict, self-effacement rather than self-assertion, a desire to give rather than a desire to destroy. The Psychology of Tzimtzum introduces the groundbreaking thought of Israel Prize laureate Professor Mordechai Rotenberg, the founding father of Jewish psychology.","brand":"The Toby Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148176212208,"sku":"9781613291252","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781613291252_p0.jpg?v=1763847056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781613291252","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}