{"id":863,"date":"2011-09-15T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:14:27","slug":"an-afterword-on-tzimtzum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/09\/15\/an-afterword-on-tzimtzum\/","title":{"rendered":"An Afterword on Tzimtzum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramchal concludes his discussion of the Tzimtzum<\/em> with this: Now, while the light that can now be envisioned <\/strong>thanks to the Tzimtzum<\/em> is termed \u201cemanated light\u201d <\/strong>by Ari [1] and others since it presents <\/strong>itself as<\/strong> a newly created light, <\/strong>that\u2019s still and all not to be taken literally. In fact it\u2019s only a specific aspect of the original light<\/strong> (i.e., of God\u2019s full presence) whose ability was diminished <\/strong>or hidden away as a consequence of the mystical process of Tzimtzum<\/em> <\/strong>(Petach<\/em> 25). <\/strong>Or, as Ramchal explains in his own comments here, what appears is \u201cEin<\/em> Sof\u2019s<\/em> own light\u201d to be sure, \u201cwhose ability has (nonetheless) been diminished and limited by the Tzimtzum<\/em> process\u201d.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See Eitz<\/em> Chaim<\/em> 1:3. Ramchal discusses this in his comments to Petach<\/em> 5 above, as well as in Klallei Ma\u2019amar HaChochma<\/em>, and in Assarah<\/em> Orot<\/em> 8.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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