Infinite and Finite: Kabbalistic Cosmology
A kabbalistic answer to the age-old philosophical question, "How can a finite creation come into existence from an infinite Creator?" A basic introduction to the esoteric doctrines of "tzimtzum" and "hishtalshelut."
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Rabbi Eli Brackman and his wife Freidy (nee Loewenthal) are directors of the Oxford Chabad Society. He gained his Rabbinical Diploma (Semicha) at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva, and is close to completing a postgraduate diploma which will qualify him to act as Dayan. He is also adept at Scribal art.
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Infinite and finite Julie I am not qualified to answer your questions. Maybe there are no terms to describe the mystical experience you had because it is beyond words and it is an understanding that does not derive from the rational mind. I have experienced similar things and I have come to treasure them and believe that our own essence is part of that light that is concealed when occupying physical bodies.