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(Kabbalah) The self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria..
At an early stage in the creative process, En Sof had tried to fill the vacuum it had created by zimzum with divine light, but the "vessels" or "pipes" designed to channel it had broken.
Several prominent kabbalists viewed the zimzum as a voluntary divine process intended to make divinity more approachable to the created realms and to the people.
Zimzum is a "restrictive contraction" which takes place in the first emanation of light and thus is the seed event which precedes all others in the act of creation.
Use zimzum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zimzum means (Kabbalah) The self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria..
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At an early stage in the creative process, En Sof had tried to fill the vacuum it had created by zimzum with divine light, but the "vessels" or "pipes" designed to channel it had broken.
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