"The Hebrew word Zimzum originally means "contraction", "withdrawal", "retreat", "limitation" and "concentration". In Kabbalah, Zimzum is a term for God's self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the 16th century, positing that the God who was "En Sof", unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must concentrate himself in the Zimzum and withdraw in order to make room for the creation of the world in God's own center. At the same time, God ...
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"The Hebrew word Zimzum originally means "contraction", "withdrawal", "retreat", "limitation" and "concentration". In Kabbalah, Zimzum is a term for God's self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the 16th century, positing that the God who was "En Sof", unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must concentrate himself in the Zimzum and withdraw in order to make room for the creation of the world in God's own center. At the same time, God also limits his infinite omnipotence to allow the finite world to arise. Without the Zimzum there is no creation, making Zimzum one of the basic concepts of Judaism. The Lurianic doctrine of the Zimzum has been considered an intellectual showpiece of the Kabbalah and of Jewish philosophy. The teaching of the Zimzum has appeared in the Kabbalistic literature across Central and Eastern Europe, perhaps most famously in Hasidic literature up to the present day and in Gershom Scholem's epoch-making research on Jewish mysticism. The Zimzum has fascinated Jewish and Christian theologians, philosophers and writers like no other Kabbalistic teaching. This can be seen across the philosophy and cultural history of the 20th century as it gained prominence among such diverse authors and artists as Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Jonas, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harold Bloom, Barnett Newman or Anselm Kiefer. This book follows the traces of the Zimzum across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America in more than four centuries, where Judaism and Christianity, theosophy and philosophy, divine and human, mysticism and literature, Kabbalah and arts encounter, mix and cross-fertilize in the interpretations and appropriations of that fascinating doctrine of God's self-entanglement and limitation"--
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