Hitbodedut

Hitbodedut or hisbodedus (Hebrew: הִתְבּוֹדְדוּת, lit. "seclusion, solitariness, solitude"; Tiberian: hiṯbōḏăḏūṯ [hiθboːðaˈðuːuθ], Ashkenazi Hebrew hisboydedus, Sephardi Hebrew hitbodedut) refers to practices of self-secluded Jewish meditation. The term was popularized by Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) to refer to an unstructured, spontaneous, and individualized form of prayer and meditation through which one would establish a close, personal relationship with God and ultimately see the Divinity inherent in all being.

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