- The
tzimtzum or
tsimtsum (Hebrew: צמצום ṣimṣum "contraction/constriction/condensation") is a term used in the
Lurianic Kabbalah to
explain Isaac Luria's...
-
Worlds within the Infinite. This
revealed new
doctrines of
Primordial Tzimtzum (contraction) and the
Shevira (shattering) and
reconfiguration of the sephirot...
-
transmission and
constant connection with its source.
Light can be
veiled ("
tzimtzum"-constrictions in Kabbalah) and
reflected ("an
ascending light from the...
- and
Abraham Joshua Heschel's
Conservative Judaism.
Lurianic symbols of
Tzimtzum and
Shevirah have
informed Holocaust theologians.
Gershom Scholem's central...
- of creation, the
Tzimtzum self "withdrawal" of God to
create an "empty space",
takes place from there. In
Hasidic Judaism, the
Tzimtzum is only the illusionary...
- God himself, and even his light, is
unrestricted by
Tzimtzum, from God's perspective. The
Tzimtzum is
merely the
hiding of this
unchanged reality from...
-
Primordial Man", God's will for
Creation before the
Tzimtzum)
Three stages of the Sod Ha
Tzimtzum "Secret of Contraction"
taught in the new
doctrines of...
- perspective,
after the
Tzimtzum (apparent
concealment of God), God
knows events "as an observer". In the
higher perspective before the
tzimtzum, God
knows Creation...
- of the
specific Divine plan for Existence,
within Creation (after the
Tzimtzum in
Lurianic Kabbalah). In Lurianism, the
lights from Adam
Kadmon precipitate...
-
independent of his essence. The new
doctrine in
Lurianic Kabbalah of God's
tzimtzum ("withdrawal")
received different interpretations after Isaac Luria, from...
