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July 23, 2024

The Mystery of God’s “Diminishment” of Himself

A new book tackles the history of one of Kabbalah’s most elusive ideas.

Christopher Schulte’s Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World is a study of the fundamental and elusive kabbalistic concept of the title. In his review, Eli Rubin turns to the interpretation offered by the late-17th-century English Christian philosopher Anne Conway:

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