| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 413 pages) : illustrations |
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Jewish Culture and Contexts Series |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Preface to the English Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Origins in the Holy Land -- 2. From Esoteric to Exoteric: European Kabbalists Transmitting Texts and Ideas in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 3. Christians Unveil the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 4. Shabbateans and Anti-Shabbateans -- 5. The Origins of Chassidism -- 6. God's Contraction in German Idealism and Romanticism -- 7. The Haskalah and Wissenschaft des Judentums -- 8. Zimzum in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: The Anthropology of Zimzum -- Appendix A. Sources on Zimzum: Texts, Art, and Music -- Appendix B. Four Hundred Fifty Years of Zimzum Diffusion |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published as: Zimzum: Gott und Weltursprung (Berlin : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, ©2014) |
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"Published in association with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania"--Series title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cabala -- History
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Hasidism.
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God (Judaism)
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God (Christianity)
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Intellectual life -- Religious aspects.
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Hasidism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
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Cabala
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God (Christianity)
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God (Judaism)
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Hasidism
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Intellectual life -- Religious aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Twitchell, Corey (Corey L.), translator.
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Translation of: Schulte, Christoph, 1958-
Zimzum. English.
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| ISBN |
9781512824360 |
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1512824364 |
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