Zimzum : : God and the Origin of the World / / Christoph Schulte.
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 L...
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Schulte, Christoph, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Zimzum : God and the Origin of the World / Christoph Schulte. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (424 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Jewish Culture and Contexts restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 sixteenth century, positing that the God who was "Ein-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 philosopher and historian 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 twentieth century as it gained prominence among such diverse authors and artists as Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Jonas, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harold Bloom, Barnett Newman, and Anselm Kiefer.This book follows the traces of the zimzum across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over more than four centuries, where Judaism and Christianity, theosophy and philosophy, divine and human, mysticism and literature, Kabbalah and the arts encounter, mix, and cross-fertilize the interpretations and appropriations of this doctrine of God's self-entanglement and limitation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) Cabala History. God (Christianity). God (Judaism). Hasidism. Intellectual life Religious aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. bisacsh Christian Hebraists. Christian Kabbalah. Corey L. Twitchell. Creation. Hasidim. Hassidism. Isaac Luria. Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah. Mysticism. Safed. Zimzum. cultural history. early modern. god omnipresence omnipotent. intellectual history of zimzum. liminal space. metaphysics. mysticism. self-limitation. sixteenth century. theology. translation. Twitchell, Corey, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023 English 9783111319285 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023 9783111318820 ZDB-23-DGF Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791372 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512824360 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512824360/original |
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