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Hit had ter be pisonous white en sof fo' hit 'ud tech Ole Missusses skin.
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Yet En Sof did not abandon the empty space entirely.
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They called the hidden God En Sof, (literally, 'without end').
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They represented the stages whereby En Sof had descended from his lonely inaccessibility to the mundane world.
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We know nothing whatever about En Sof: he is not even mentioned in either the Bible or the Talmud.
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An anonymous thirteenth-century author wrote that En Sof is incapable of becoming the subject of a revelation to humanity.
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The sefiroth represent the worlds of light that manifest the darkness of En Sof which remains in impenetrable obscurity.
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After the catastrophe, a new stream of light issued from En Sof and broke through the 'forehead' of Adam Kadmon.
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In order to make room for the world, Luria taught, En Sof had, as it were, vacated a region within himself.
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En sof (Hebrew: 'without end').
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The Zohar shows the mysterious emanation of the ten sefiroth as a process whereby the impersonal En Sof becomes a personality.
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The 'empty space' created by God's withdrawal was conceived as a circle, which was surrounded on all sides by En Sof.
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{54} Unlike YHWH, En Sof had no documented name; 'he' is not a person.
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{32} God was not an-other Being: En Sof transcended all human concepts such as personality.
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Although everything was in disarray, En Sof would bring new life out of this apparent chaos by means of the process of Tikkun or re-integration.
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En Sof is the sap that runs through the branches of the tree and gives them life, unifying them in a mysterious and complex reality.