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A Popular Dictionary of Judaism

ZIMZUM

(Hebrew. ‘Contraction’) Kabbalistic theory of *Creation. The kabbalists taught that there had to be zimzum, before *God could make space for the creation.

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Zimzum from A Popular Dictionary of Judaism. ISBN: 0-203-98620-2. Published: 2005–05–04. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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