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A New Three-Part System for Handling Any Question or Problem: The Ma?Ban?Essence Methodology Derived from Jewish Mystical Thought
Subject area: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities · Area of research: Religious Philosophy (Jewish Mysticism)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I6-1712829
Abstract
The paper presents a new hermeneutical and pedagogical model known as the MaBanEssence Tripartite System, which was based on the tradition of Kabbalah and Chassidism, which was first expressed in the Tanya (Likkutei Amarim) and its companion book Shaar HaYichud VeHaEmunah by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (17451812). The system assumes that all questions, problems and phenomena have three irreducible layers of it: (1) the Ma (???) - the open undifferentiated, unsaturated potentiality (2) the Ban (????, contraction/limitation) - the defined, negated, or problematic aspect (3) the Essence (????????) - the transcendent harmony that reconciles and lifts the other two. The mind comes to that more joyful, deeper, more transformative understanding, only after it has completely expressed the Ma, and then the Ban, and then only the Essence. The paper shows how the system can be applied to pedagogy, decision making, scientific inquiry, and political deliberation.
How to cite this paper
@article{1712829,
author = {Shmuel Y Pollen},
title = {A New Three-Part System for Handling Any Question or Problem: The Ma?Ban?Essence Methodology Derived from Jewish Mystical Thought},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2025},
volume = {9},
number = {6},
pages = {2454-2459},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1712829.pdf},
abstract = {The paper presents a new hermeneutical and pedagogical model known as the MaBanEssence Tripartite System, which was based on the tradition of Kabbalah and Chassidism, which was first expressed in the Tanya (Likkutei Amarim) and its companion book Shaar HaYichud VeHaEmunah by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (17451812). The system assumes that all questions, problems and phenomena have three irreducible layers of it: (1) the Ma (???) - the open undifferentiated, unsaturated potentiality (2) the Ban (????, contraction/limitation) - the defined, negated, or problematic aspect (3) the Essence (????????) - the transcendent harmony that reconciles and lifts the other two. The mind comes to that more joyful, deeper, more transformative understanding, only after it has completely expressed the Ma, and then the Ban, and then only the Essence. The paper shows how the system can be applied to pedagogy, decision making, scientific inquiry, and political deliberation.},
month = {December},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I6-1712829}
}