The Camp of God’s Presence View your meeting place as a sanctified space, the center of the world. It is a bath house where souls are washed and purified. You are entering the camp of God’s Presence, here in this space. On your way, imagine that you are leaving the realm of this world and going to a branch of the lower Garden of Eden, which God has brought down to your meeting place. Your heart should be glad and you should rejoice with a holy trembling in your great happiness that even in this world you can take refuge under the wings of God’s Presence.

When you arrive at your meeting place, you should certainly rejoice and bear in mind that God’s Holy Presence is in your midst. “My spirit is sick with love for You; please, God, heal it by showing it the delight of Your radiance” (Yedid Nefesh). Awaken a yearning that God reveal in your heart a spark of the delight of His radiance and the beauty of His might that is found here.