In Kabbalah, God is prior to any self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual realm.
1Hit had ter be pisonous white en sof fo' hit 'ud tech Ole Missusses skin.
2Yet En Sof did not abandon the empty space entirely.
3They called the hidden God En Sof, (literally, 'without end').
4They represented the stages whereby En Sof had descended from his lonely inaccessibility to the mundane world.
5We know nothing whatever about En Sof: he is not even mentioned in either the Bible or the Talmud.
6An anonymous thirteenth-century author wrote that En Sof is incapable of becoming the subject of a revelation to humanity.
7The sefiroth represent the worlds of light that manifest the darkness of En Sof which remains in impenetrable obscurity.
8After the catastrophe, a new stream of light issued from En Sof and broke through the 'forehead' of Adam Kadmon.
9In order to make room for the world, Luria taught, En Sof had, as it were, vacated a region within himself.
10En sof (Hebrew: 'without end').
11The Zohar shows the mysterious emanation of the ten sefiroth as a process whereby the impersonal En Sof becomes a personality.
12The 'empty space' created by God's withdrawal was conceived as a circle, which was surrounded on all sides by En Sof.
13{54} Unlike YHWH, En Sof had no documented name; 'he' is not a person.
14{32} God was not an-other Being: En Sof transcended all human concepts such as personality.
15Although 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.
16En Sof is the sap that runs through the branches of the tree and gives them life, unifying them in a mysterious and complex reality.