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# Daniel Chanan Matt

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Daniel Chanan Matt is an author, teacher and scholar of Kabbalah. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and served as a professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley from 1979-2000. He has also taught at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

##  Quotes by Daniel Chanan Matt

> [“I can hardly open my mouth to speak without feeling as though the sea burst its dams and overflowed. How then shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-chanan-matt/i-can-hardly-open-my-mouth-to-speak-without-feeling-as-though-the-sea/)

Daniel Chanan Matt

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> [“Heresy arises as a pained outcry to liberate us from this strange, narrow pit, to raise us from the darkness of letters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-chanan-matt/heresy-arises-as-a-pained-outcry-to-liberate-us-from-this-strange/)

Daniel Chanan Matt

[Heresy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heresy/)

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