The impenetrable substance of this world was, for Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, a diamond, waiting to be cut, exposing a myriad of faces all reflecting the brilliant light of truth. Rabbi Kaplan believed that a rapidly changing scientific and intellectual environment is creating fertile ground for Jewish ideology to challenge the myths of contemporary civilization. He saw that this new environment is such that, as modern exploration and science grows in sophistication, it is becoming the ally of authentic belief instead of its enemy. (184 Pages)