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The Arizal, Part 4: Revelation of Concealment — Tzimtzum Both Real and Unreal
What does it mean to say that Hashem concealed His infinite light—and can Divine absence ever truly be real?
In this episode, Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld enters the first central sugya of the Arizal’s system: the mystery of tzimtzum. Before creation, the light of the Ohr Ein Sof filled all possible existence. In order for a finite world, individual beings, and genuine relationship to emerge, there had to be an apparent empty space—a chalal in which something other than the overwhelming revelation of infinitude could seem to exist.
The episode explores the different approaches to whether tzimtzum…
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