Rabbi David Aaron is founder of the world-renowned Isralight Institute. In this paperback, he sets out to explain how the Kabbalah enables us to "see" God in the midst of our daily lives. "We have all been taught that we cannot see God," he explains, "but the truth is not only that we can see God but that we have actually been looking at God the whole time. We just didn't see Who we were looking at. If you wear corrective lens, I am sure you can remember the time you got a new prescription and walked out onto the street. All of a sudden you saw a new world. It was actually the same old world but with new clarity and intensity. All this brilliant detail was before your very eyes all along, you just needed the right glasses to see. God is right before your eyes — the eyes of your soul — and all you need are the right lenses through which to look."

According to Rabbi Aaron, the greatest obstacle to seeing the presence of God is "our filing cabinet of labels and preconceptions." We must set aside these ideas and remember that the Holy One is all mystery and magnificence, way beyond our limited capacity to comprehend. The Kabbalah counsels us to rest in the incomprehensible and not to kick and scream. We must also come to a deeper appreciation of silence and understand that it is a place that God frequents.

Other chapters in Seeing God deal with letting the blessings flow, communal consciousness, and tapping into the Divine Life force which brings love, wisdom and healing. We were very impressed with Aaron's The Secret Life of God. This earlier book is just as good.