Dira Betachtonim (original) (raw)

Dira Betachtonim (Hebrew: דירה בתחתונים) is a concept in Chabad philosophy describing the process of manifesting the presence of God within the world. Dirah Batachtonim is discussed primarily by the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, in his Samech Vov series of Hasidic treatises. In the Samech Vov series, this idea is pronounced as the ultimate purpose of creation. Central to the Dirah Betachtonim concept is the notion of sublimating the physical aspects of existence.