 Meditation has been of interest to a wide variety of modern Jews.In modern Jewish practice, one of the best known meditative practices is called ""hitbodedut"" ("התבודדות", alternatively transliterated as "hisbodedus"), and is explained in Kabbalistic, Hasidic, and Mussar writings, especially the Hasidic method of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav.The word derives from the Hebrew word "boded" (בודד), meaning the state of being alone.