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Ethical rule number one is that the more power someone has in a relationship the more incumbent upon them it is to make room for the other: To do what Jewish wisdom calls tzimtzum -- self contraction.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: Analyzing The Clintons: What Bill And Hillary Teach Us About Relationships 2009
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* And then the concept of tzimtzum, the Hebrew word for contraction, a spiritual pulling back by the Eternal to yield spiritual space for existence.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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* And then the concept of tzimtzum, the Hebrew word for contraction, a spiritual pulling back by the Eternal to yield spiritual space for existence.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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First there was the sixteenth-century kabbalist Isaac Luria's notion of "tzimtzum," that is, the primordial kenotic space of Divine contraction out of which the pairs of opposites constituting the universe were said to arise.
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What I do know is that the religious language of Divine-human partnership, of tzimtzum and of hidden light has helped me to cultivate a sense of personal responsibility, of humility and of hope.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
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What I do know is that the religious language of Divine-human partnership, of tzimtzum and of hidden light has helped me to cultivate a sense of personal responsibility, of humility and of hope.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
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However, in other teachings he explains that tzimtzum offers the devotee the opportunity to become a more active participant in shaping a life of holiness and to work with the Divine to sanctify all of existence.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
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In the mystical terminology of Hasidism, God functions from within a state of tzimtzum veiled appearance, active but not easily perceptible to the seeker.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
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However, in other teachings he explains that tzimtzum offers the devotee the opportunity to become a more active participant in shaping a life of holiness and to work with the Divine to sanctify all of existence.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
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In the mystical terminology of Hasidism, God functions from within a state of tzimtzum veiled appearance, active but not easily perceptible to the seeker.
Rabbi Or Rose: Divine Light And Human Hands: A Mystical Teaching On Hanukkah Rabbi Or Rose 2010
limberbellona commented on the word tzimtzum
In Jewish Mysticism, Tzimtzum (צמצו�? Hebrew: "contraction" or "constriction") refers to the notion in the Kabbalistic theory of creation that God "contracted" his infinite light in order to allow for a "conceptual space" in which a finite, seemingly independent world could exist.
The function of the Tzimtzum was "to conceal from created beings the activating force within them, enabling them to exist as tangible entities, instead of being utterly nullified within their source" 1. The tzimtzum produced the required "vacated space" (chalal panui חלל פנוי, chalal חלל), devoid of direct awareness of God's presence.
July 6, 2008