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Encyclopedia > Ein Sof (Kabbalah)

Ein Sof (Hebrew: "without end" denoting "boundlessness"), also known as "Divine Being", is the name for God, within the Kabbalah of Judaism, as he is unknown, or the mysterious and ultimate source of all existence. All other existence flows, or emanates from the Ein Sof. Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 7 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... The concept of the divine or of The Divine, meaning matters relating to a god, forms an important ingredient in many religious faiths (but compare Buddhism, for example, or Scientology). ... God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by monotheistic religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. ... Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה reception, Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Kaballah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, soul of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ...


According to the Zohar, the ten Sefirot (the Divine "emanations") as found in the Adam Kadmon (the original "primal man" created by God) emanate from Ein Sof. The Zohar (Hebrew זהר Splendor, radiance) is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. ... Sephirah, also Sefirah (Hebrew language סְפִירָה Enumeration); plural Sephiroth or Sefiroth סְפִירוֹת. ... The concept of the divine or of The Divine, meaning matters relating to a god, forms an important ingredient in many religious faiths (but compare Buddhism, for example, or Scientology). ... In the religious writings of Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon is a phrase meaning Primordial Man, or Primal Man, comparable to the Anthropos of Gnosticism and Manichaeism. ... God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by monotheistic religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. ... In the Jewish Kabbalah tradition, Ayn Sof (Ain Sof, Hebrew boundlessness or without end), also known referred to as Divine Being, is the name for God as he is unknown, or the mysterious and ultimate source of all existence. ...


En Sof manifested himself to the Jewish mystics under ten different aspects or sefiroth (“numerations”) of the divine reality which had emanated from the inscrutable depths of the unknowable Godhead. Sephirah, also Sefirah (סְפִירָה enumeration in Hebrew); plural: Sephiroth or Sefirot סְפִירוֹת. ... In Christianity, the Godhead is a unit consisting of God the Father, Jesus Christ (the Son), and the Holy Spirit. ...


Ten aspects

The ten aspects of the Divine can be described as (also see Sephirah (Kabbalah)): The concept of the divine or of The Divine, meaning matters relating to a god, forms an important ingredient in many religious faiths (but compare Buddhism, for example, or Scientology). ... Sephirah, also Sefirah (סְפִירָה enumeration in Hebrew); plural: Sephiroth or Sefirot סְפִירוֹת. The Sephirot // In Judaism: Sefirot (or Enumerations), in the Kabbalah of Judaism, are the ten attributes that God (who is referred to as the Or Ein Sof, light [that is] without end) created through which he can project himself to...

  1. Supreme Crown (Kether Elyon)
  2. Wisdom (Chokhmah)
  3. Intelligence (Binah)
  4. Love or Mercy (Hesed)
  5. Power (Din) [or Geburah]
  6. Compassion (Rakhamim) or Beauty (Tifereth)
  7. Lasting Endurance (Netsakth)
  8. Majesty (Hod)
  9. Foundation (Yesod)
  10. Kingdom (Malkuth or Shekinah)

(see Karen Armstrong, A History of God). Keter or kether is the Hebrew word for crown, as worn by a king or queen. ... Elyon: The name or epithet or word ‘Elyôn (Masoretic pronunciation of Hebrew עליון), is traditionally rendered in Samaritan Hebrew as illiyyon, and means something like higher, upper. It derives from the Hebrew root ‘lh, Semitic root ‘ly go up, ascend. ‘Elyôn when is means God or is applied to God... Wisdom is the ability to make correct judgments and decisions. ... Chokhmah or chochmah or hokhmah, (חכמה) is the Hebrew word for wisdom. A wise man is a chacham (feminine: chachama). ... Intelligence is usually said to involve mental capabilities such as the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... Binah is the third Sefirah on the tree of life. ... It has been suggested that True love be merged into this article or section. ... Mercy is a term used to describe the leniency or compassion shown by one person to another, or a request from one person to another to be shown such leniency or compassion. ... The concept of power has many senses, all of which imply control or force. ... Deutsches Institut für Normung e. ... Gevurah (Severity; גבורה) or Geburah, and Din (Judgment) in the Kabbalah of Judaism is the fifth of the Sephirot of the tree of life, and it is the second of the emotive attributes of the Sephirot. ... Compassion (in Pali: Karuna) is a sense of shared suffering, most often combined with a desire to alleviate or reduce such suffering; to show special kindness to those who suffer. ... Many see natural beauty in the folded petals of a rose. ... Tiphereth also Known as Tifereth, Tipheret, Tiferet, or Rahamin. ... Majesty is an English word rooting in the Latin Maiestas, meaning literally, Greatness. ... Hod is the eighth sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. ... Yesod (foundation) is one of the important Kabbalistic sephirot. ... A monarchy, (from the Greek monos, one, and archein, to rule) is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Shekinah (שכינה - alternative transliterations Shechinah, Shekhina, Shechina) is the English spelling of the Hebrew language word that means the glory or radiance of God, or God resting in his house or Tabernacle amongst his people. ... Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author, feminist and writer on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. ...


Theories of the relation between Ein Sof and all other realities and levels of reality may have been developed by the Jewish mystical thinkers of the middle ages, such as Isaac the Blind and Azriel who could have been influenced by concepts of Neoplatonism which they modified to conform to their own leanings. In mathematics, theory is used informally to refer to a body of knowledge about mathematics. ... In the Jewish Kabbalah tradition, Ayn Sof (Ain Sof, Hebrew boundlessness or without end), also known referred to as Divine Being, is the name for God as he is unknown, or the mysterious and ultimate source of all existence. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Isaac the Blind (c. ... Azriel was one of the most important Jewish mystics in the Spanish town of Gerona (north of Barcelona) during the thirteenth century when it was an important center of the Kabbalah. ... Influence Science and Practice (ISBN 0321188950) is a Psychology book examining the key ways people can be influenced by Compliance Professionals. The books authors is Robert B. Cialdini, Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University. ... A concept is an abstract, universal idea, notion, or entity that serves to designate a category or class of entities, events, or relations. ... Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) was a school of philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century A.D. Though based on the teachings of Plato and the Platonists, it interpreted Plato in many new ways, so that Neoplatonism was quite different from what Plato had written, though many Neoplatonists would...


Mathematician Georg Cantor labeled different sizes of infinity using the Aleph. The smallest size of infinity is aleph-null (aleph_0), the second size is aleph-one (aleph_1), etc. One theory about why Cantor chose to use the aleph is because it is the first letter of Ein-Sof. (See Aleph number) Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845 – January 6, 1918) was a mathematician who was born in Russia and lived in Germany for most of his life. ... Infinity is a term with very distinct, separate meanings which arise in theology, philosophy, mathematics and everyday life. ... In the branch of mathematics known as set theory, the aleph numbers are a series of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets. ...


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Ein Sof (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (333 words)
Ein Sof or Ayn Sof (Hebrew אין סוף, literally "without end", denoting "boundlessness" and/or "nothingness"), also known as "Divine Being", is the name for God within the Kabbalah of Judaism.
Source Ein Sof refers to a concept surrounding the very first line of the torah, "breshit bara adonai" which could mean; in the beginning God created, in the beginning of God's creation, or in the beginning ____ created God.
The blank in the last translation is the ein sof or "nothingness" Rashi reminds us that we don't after all know when the darkness, void and chaos began (ein sof).
Kabbalah: The Serifot of EIN SOF (AIN SOF) (509 words)
Kabbalah: The Serifot of EIN SOF (AIN SOF)
AIN SOF is the One to the Zero of AIN.
From this endless unfathomable EIN SOF GODSOURCE emanates 10 realms of existence, each less glorious than the former, until we get to the last realm, which is the realm our universe is in.
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