Isaac Luria

Ottoman rabbi in Egypt and Palestine

Rabbi and kabbalist.

The tzimtzum or tsimtsum () is a term used in Lurianic Kabbalah to explain Isaac Luria's doctrine that God began the process of creation by limiting the Ohr Ein Sof (infinite light) of the Godhead in order to allow for a conceptual space in which the Four Worlds, or finite realms, could exist. This primordial initial contraction, forming a "vacant space" () into which new creative light could beam, is denoted by general reference to the tzimtzum. In Kabbalistic interpretation, tzimtzum gives rise to the paradox of simultaneous divine presence and absence within the vacuum and resultant Creatio

School of kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572)

synagogue in Jerusalem

orthodox synagogue in Safed, Israel

Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.

Jewish kabbalist, student of Isaac Luria (1590–1610)

Ottoman rabbi

in Kabbalah, the chain-like descent of spiritual worlds (olamot) between God and Creation

Partzufim or Partsufim (, singular partzuf, , from Greek: πρόσωπον prósopon "face" or "mask"), are "countenances" or "personas" of God described in the Zohar.

Forms of the Jewish siddurim