Similar to many innovative “life projects”, the discovery of the “tsimtsum” (contraction) psychology emanated from an incidental chain of events. During the sixties, when Prof. Rotenberg was a doctoral student at the University of California in Berkeley, he became immersed in the famous anti Vietnam movement which disseminated from this campus. The anti establishment aura, which imbued this social revolution also seemed to have nourished the anti psychiatric fad which claimed that labeling people as cureless schizophrenics is primarily a stigmatic act of discrimination. Following Max Weber’s sociology of religion Rotenberg then developed a counter thesis arguing that it is the Protestant- Calvinistic theology of deterministic predestination and not an elitist ideology which underlies Western irreversible diagnostic systems in psychiatry. Since the discovery that a hidden theology underlies Western psychology raised considerable controversial disputes among western psychotherapists, Rotenberg felt pressed to uncover the psychology embedded in Jewish theology. As a result, he delved during the subsequent 35 years into Jewish hermeneutic literature in order to develop the Jewish Midrashic and mystic psychological system which he constructed according to the Kabbalistic-Hasidic notion of “tsimtsum”. In the ten books which Rotenberg wrote he subsequently tried to demonstrate how the Kabbalistic theodicy that maintains that God’s voluntary contraction into himself in order to make space for the world of “others”, may serve as an alternative dialogical psychology which differs radically from the prevailing Western Darwinistic psychology of egocentrism.