Void/Nothingness Infinity Infinite Light Withdraws (tzimtzum) from a "Chalal" ("Vacated space"), to allow Creation to take place. - "Tzimtzum" ("Constrictions" ) Emanation of 10 Sephirot - 10 Sefirot: Ohrot and Keilim – Lights and Vessels Creation of 4 worlds
Shevirat Ha-Kelim (Shattering of the Vessels)
- Following the act of Tzimtzum, the divine emanations, known as the Sefirot, began to flow into the empty space created by the contraction.
- However, the vessels (Kelim) that were meant to contain these divine energies were unable to withstand the intensity of the divine light.
- when God began to pour his Light into the vessels they were not strong enough to hold the power of God's Light and shattered (Shevirat)
- the vessels shattered, leading to a cosmic catastrophe known as the Shevirat Ha-Kelim, or the Breaking of the Vessels. This event symbolizes the fragmentation and disorder introduced into the world as a result of the imperfect vessels' inability to contain the divine light.
- The shattered vessels scattered sparks of divine light throughout the cosmos, creating a world imbued with both divine presence and brokenness. This condition forms the basis of human existence and the ongoing process of spiritual rectification (Tikkun).
- Tikkun, is the process of gathering together, and raising, the sparks of God's Light that were carried down with the shards of the shattered vessels.
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3 Veils of Negative Existence
Ain (Nothingness) Ain Soph (Limitless) Ain Soph Aur (Limitless Light)
Ohr Ein Sof ("God's Infinite Light")
- Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof before the Tzimtzum ("The Essence of the Infinite Light before the Contraction")
Shattering of the Vessels
- The Tzimtzum ("The Contraction")
Ḥālāl (חָלָל "Empty space"), the emptiness
- The Reshimu ("The Impression")
- The Kav ("Line of Light") ("Line/Ray"), new divine light radiated into the primordial emptiness
- Avir ("Space/Ether") "Ethereal space" within which divine light, created precisely by God, took shape in creation and creatures or was sublimated in the spiritual modalities of the angels and the souls of living beings
- Ratzon Kadum ("Original Desire")
- Adam Kadmon ("Original Man")
THE FOUR WORLDS
- Atziluth ("World of Emanation")
- The Masach ("The Curtain")
- Beriah ("World of Creation")
- Yetzirah ("World of Formation")
- Assiah ("World of Action")
The Tree of Life
Sephiroth: Emanations of Divine Energy
- Kether
- Chokmah
- Binah
- Chesed
- Geburah
- Tiphareth
- Netzach
- Hod
- Yesod
- Malkuth
- Atzmut ("God's Absolute simple Essence" above the limitations of infinitude/finitude, able to be expressed in the divine "desire" for finite mitzvot
- Yachid ("The Single One")
- Echad ("The One")
- Sha'ashuim Atzmi'im ("The Delights of Self")
- Aliyat Haratzon ("The 'ascent' of God’s will" to create the world)
- Ana Emloch (The Primordial 'Thought' of “I Shall Rule”, God’s Primordial Will to be 'King')
- Ein Sof ("No End" - classic term for the Unknowable God in Kabbalah, God as Infinite lifesource continuously sustaining all Creation into Existence, above Being/Non-Being, reciprocally Becoming through the totality of Creation by the divine souls of Man
- Kadmon ("Primordial One")
- Avir Kadmon ("Primordial Atmosphere")
- Adam Kadma'ah Stima'ah ("Concealed Primordial Man", God's will for Creation before the Tzimtzum)
- Tzimtzum
Adam & Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and being expelled from the garden
The Tree of Life
- The Tree of Knowledge
- Adam Belial and the Tree of Death
- Kelipot - Impure Shells
- yetzer hara, the evil inclination.”
Reversing The Fall of Man - reclaiming exiled Divine sparks.
- Tikkun Ha-Nefesh - Rectification of the Soul - a multifaceted process of spiritual purification and elevation aimed at restoring the soul to its original state of wholeness and harmony.
- Tikkun Olam - Repairing the World
- repentance and atonement - Teshuvah
- Repentance- Teshuva - "return"
The Christ The Teacher of Righteousness The fulfilment of the Prophesies and the Law