In Kabbalah, God is prior to any self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual realm.
1 Hit had ter be pisonous white en sof fo' hit 'ud tech Ole Missusses skin.
2 Yet En Sof did not abandon the empty space entirely.
3 They called the hidden God En Sof , (literally, 'without end').
4 They represented the stages whereby En Sof had descended from his lonely inaccessibility to the mundane world.
5 We know nothing whatever about En Sof : he is not even mentioned in either the Bible or the Talmud.
6 An anonymous thirteenth-century author wrote that En Sof is incapable of becoming the subject of a revelation to humanity.
7 The sefiroth represent the worlds of light that manifest the darkness of En Sof which remains in impenetrable obscurity.
8 After the catastrophe, a new stream of light issued from En Sof and broke through the 'forehead' of Adam Kadmon.
9 In order to make room for the world, Luria taught, En Sof had, as it were, vacated a region within himself.
10 En sof (Hebrew: 'without end').
11 The Zohar shows the mysterious emanation of the ten sefiroth as a process whereby the impersonal En Sof becomes a personality.
12 The '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.
15 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.
16 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.
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