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Daat Elyon is an online center for the study of spiritual wisdom and the practice of contemplative techniques. Through seminars (webinars), weekly teachings and multi-media postings we hope to open the door for seekers to the living experience of God’s presence and the understanding of the inner reality.

We live life on a superficial level. We are unaware of the world around us and the people in front of us. There is a deeper and more meaningful level of reality that we can learn to access. We access this deeper reality through daat elyon.

Daat Elyon is the term used in the Kabbalah for the higher knowledge that arises out of the direct experience of the spiritual realm. Spiritual knowledge is not like other knowledge. It cannot be learned through mere intellectual study. Spiritual knowledge comes from inner experience. Our weekly teachings guide the seeker along the path that leads to inner experience. Our seminars combine the study of spiritual wisdom with the practice of meditation.

The Kabbalah speaks of two types of knowledge: daat elyon, the higher knowledge, and daat tachton, the lower knowledge. Read more…

Rabbi Yoel GlickAbout Rabbi Yoel Glick

Rabbi Yoel Glick is a teacher of Jewish meditation and spiritual wisdom who has been teaching and guiding seekers on the path for over twenty years. He has taught in the U.S., Canada, Israel Asia and Europe to audiences of all denominations from Orthodox to Jewish Renewal and Reform as well as a variety of Interfaith settings.

Yoel was born in Toronto, Canada and received his BA from the University of Toronto and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University in New York, as well as from the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

In 1981, Yoel moved to Israel with his wife Nomi where he founded Mercaz Hochmat HaLev [The Center for the Wisdom of the Heart] a center for the study of Jewish spirituality in the Old City of Jerusalem. Many of today’s leading figures in Jewish spirituality took part in Hochmat Halev as teachers and students. Among them were Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Rabbi David Cooper, Rabbi Gedalia Fleer, Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Danny Matt, Rabbi Avram Davis and many others.

During his time in Israel, Yoel was part of a group of Jewish seekers who meditated together and explored the links between Judaism and the religions of the East.

In 1988, Yoel moved to southern France with his family where he focused his energies on the exploration of the wisdom of Hindu, Buddhist and Christian mysticism. During his years in France, Yoel forged links with a number of Christian monastic communities and also spent time in Indian ashrams. As part of his life in France, Yoel and his wife Nomi run a meditation and retreat center for a small circle of seekers from different faiths. Today Yoel divides his time between France, Israel and North America.