Ein Sof, or Eyn Sof (/eɪn sɒf/, Hebrew: אֵין סוֹף ʾēn sōf; meaning "infinite", lit. '(There is) no end'), in Kabbalah, is understood as God prior to any...
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Ohr (redirect from Ohr Ein Sof)
(beginning with the Ohr Ein Sof - the primordial "Infinite Light", and subsequently the ten sefirot emanations) and the Divine Ein Sof or divine source appears...
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explain the relationship between the unchanging, eternal God—the mysterious Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, 'The Infinite')—and the mortal, finite universe (God's creation)...
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Seder hishtalshelus (section Or Ein Sof)
Creation. Preparatory stages in Or Ein Sof "God's Infinite Light" before the beginning of the creative process. The Or Ein Sof is a paradoxical form of divine...
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intermediary between the Divine Infinity (Ein Sof) and Chochmah. Because Keter is a supreme revelation of the Ohr Ein Sof (Infinite Light), transcending the...
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designated term "Ein Sof" ("No end"-Infinite). Reference to atzmus is usually restricted in Kabbalistic theory to discussion whether "Ein Sof" represents the...
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reproductions of the tree of life, but is referred to universally as Ohr Ein Sof (Hebrew: אֵין סוֹף אוֹר, romanized: endless light). To Kabbalists, it symbolizes...
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symbolizing the divine will and the initial impulse towards creation from the Ein Sof, or infinite source. It represents pure consciousness and transcends human...
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order to create the world, God contracted (Tzimtzum) His omnipresence, the Ein Sof, leaving a Vacant Void (Chalal panuy), bereft of obvious presence and therefore...
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puts it, "Of God as God is in Godself—Ein Sof—nothing can be said at all, and no thought can reach there". Ein Sof is a place to which forgetting and oblivion...
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the ten sefirot or divine attributes emerging from concealment in the Ein Sof "Divine Infinity" to enact Creation, with the Four Worlds unfolding sequentially...
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sefirot, Adam Kadmon and the Four Worlds evolve sequentially from the Ein Sof (divine infinity). For Luria, creation is a dynamic process of divine exile-rectification...
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concept of "Worlds" denotes the emanation of creative lifeforce from the Ein Sof or Godhead through progressive, innumerable tzimtzumim or concealments...
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Luria's doctrine that God began the process of creation by limiting the Ohr Ein Sof (infinite light) of the Godhead in order to allow for a conceptual space...
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tzimtzum only affected apparent concealment of the Ohr Ein Sof. The Ein Sof, and the Ohr Ein Sof, actually remain omnipresent, this world nullified into...
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asher Ehyeh" Eibishter/Aybishter – 'The One Above' (Yiddish: אײבערשטער) Ein Sof – 'Endless, Infinite', Kabbalistic name of God El ha-Gibbor – 'God the...
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puts it: "Of God as He is in Himself—Ein Sof—nothing can be said at all, and no thought can reach there." Ein Sof is a place to which forgetting and oblivion...
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"Ein Sof" (literally, without end) as reference to God's divine simplicity and essential unknowability. The emanation of creation from the Ein Sof is...
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Part of a series on Kabbalah Concepts Ein Sof Tzimtzum Ohr Ayin and Yesh Sefirot Four Worlds Seder hishtalshelut Tree of Life The path of the flaming...
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Judaic Kabbalah tree of life 10 Sefirot, through which the Ein Sof unknowable divine manifests Creation. The configuration relates to the first human...
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Ancient One – Atika Kadisha, variably interpreted as synonymous with the Ein Sof, the unmanifested Godhead. The Ancient of Days is the manifestation of...
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following Kabbalah related ideas: Sephirot: The ten attributes/emanations of Ein Sof, through which the universe's existence is sustained. Letters of the Torah:...
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spiritual perception of creation, nullifying from the Divine view into the Ohr Ein Sof (Infinite light). As "the Torah speaks in the language of Man", according...
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New Zealand Aditi, Sanskrit for "not (a) bound (diti)" or without limits Ein Sof, Hebrew for "unending" or without limits Adventures Unlimited (disambiguation)...
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Part of a series on Kabbalah Concepts Ein Sof Tzimtzum Ohr Ayin and Yesh Sefirot Four Worlds Seder hishtalshelut Tree of Life The path of the flaming...
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Pardes and the Zohar to its cosmogonic, apocalyptic climax in Isaac Luria's Ein Sof that is known collectively as Kabbalah. After generations of demoralization...
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Part of a series on Kabbalah Concepts Ein Sof Tzimtzum Ohr Ayin and Yesh Sefirot Four Worlds Seder hishtalshelut Tree of Life The path of the flaming...
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Part of a series on Kabbalah Concepts Ein Sof Tzimtzum Ohr Ayin and Yesh Sefirot Four Worlds Seder hishtalshelut Tree of Life The path of the flaming...
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separating them from their dependence and nullification in the Absolute Ein Sof Unity. Instead, Kabbalist prayer, following the liturgy, is only to God...
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