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Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World by Christoph Schulte

Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World by Christoph Schulte

Translator: Corey Twitchell Jewish Culture and Contexts 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...