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Kabbalah describes the process of Creation.
Before any emanations were emanated or any creations created, there was one simple supernal Light that filled all existence. When it was G-d's Will to create worlds, He constricted that Light, leaving a vacated space and hollow void so that there was a "place" for all that was to be emanated [Atzilut], created [Beriya], formed [Yetzira], and completed [Asiya].
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The Torah is for this world…for Beriya
In the world of Atzilut; the revelation of G-d in this world
is so great that it leaves absolutely no room for self-awareness.
In the world of
Beriya, for the first time the created beings are aware of themselves
as entities distinct from G-d. Thus the Torah is called 'the Torah of Beriya,'
for
it speaks about the world of Beriya, not the world of
Atzilut.
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Kabbalah explains the mystical dynamics of the creation of male and female and their fall.
Kabbalah explains the mystical dynamics of the creation of male and female and their fall. (This article is a continuation of an earlier installment, For the World of the Chariot.)
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Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, was the original Torah.
G-d originally delighted in a Torah which preceded the created world; that Torah, corresponding to the World to Come, is essentially spiritual and is compared to the soul, as opposed to the "body" of the Torah we have access to today.
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Kabbalah describes the order of the creation of the heavens and earth.
In the account of Creation
of the world of Beriya, the heavens are mentioned first, while in the account of the making
of
the world of Asiya, the earth was mentioned first. This is because the Creation occurred by means of Zeir
Anpin and Nukva of Atzilut as
they were clothed. is a masculine world, so therefore the heavens, the vav of
the name Havayah, were created
first.
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- Kabbalah (1207)
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