Ein Sof

Now, as we've already noted, the Ein Sof is very different from what most people call "God."

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

Moreover, from God's point of view, all of the distinctions we make -- between ourselves and the world outside ourselves, among objects in the world, etc. -- are completely illusory, because ultimately there is only the undifferentiated unity of the Ein Sof, the Infinite.

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

At the deepest, most fundamental level, the true reality of our existence is One, Ein Sof, infinite, and thus the sense of separate self that we all have -- the notion that "you" and "I" are individuals with souls separate from the rest of the universe -- is not ultimately true.

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

To be sure, this is a God very different from the ordinary one -- a "God beyond God," as it were, neither a paternalistic judge nor a partisan warrior, but Ein Sof, Being and Nothingness, without end or limit, and thus filling every molecule of this page and every synapse in the brain.

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

If this computer screen is not the Ein Sof, we've made a mistake, because we've given the Ein Sof a sof -- an end.

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

Gurrrrrrrl, you better get your hubris under control before Ein Sof smites yo ass!

Archive 2006-08-01 2006

Gurrrrrrrl, you better get your hubris under control before Ein Sof smites yo ass!

Oh, MaDONNA! 2006

The sefirot act by virtue of the force of Ein Sof and the order of this world (i.e. our material world) is derived from their order i.e. the order of their rank in emanation.

Elijah Delmedigo Ross, Jacob 2005

Jewish Cabalist Moses Cardoveros presents the following unitheistic version of Judaism: Each of us emerges from Ein Sof the Unnameable One and is included in it.

The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002

Jewish Cabalist Moses Cardoveros presents the following unitheistic version of Judaism: Each of us emerges from Ein Sof the Unnameable One and is included in it.

The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002