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Kabbalistic Judaism also addresses the capacity for somethingness to emerge from nothingness. Very interesting interpretations of these metaphysical puzzles.

Kabbalistic Judaism also addresses the capacity for somethingness to emerge from nothingness. Very interesting interpretations of these metaphysical puzzles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin_and_Yesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin_and_Yesh Tzimtzum, "contraction", proposes that the physical world is infinite somethingness/nothingness (essentially equal representations of one thing) made manifest in the realm of light/waves and distinctions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum

jedimind 6y ago
Nope, you should read your sources properly, it clearly says that the divine creates something from nothing, NOT that something emerges from nothing by nothing: "before the universe was created there was only Ayin, and the first manifest Sephirah (Divine emanation), Chochmah (Wisdom), "comes into being out of Ayin."[1] In this context, the sephirah Keter, the Divine will, is the intermediary between the Divine Infinity (Ein Sof) and Chochmah"
naringas 6y ago
so basically, the God entity withdrew (contracted, rescinded) its infinite presence and thus us finite creatures came to be? I had thought that the nature of the void (i.e. nothingness), or rather, its lack of a nature is what allowed stuff to freely appear into existence (as many times as it wants). the void imposes no restrictions because it is not really there to impose them. stuff pops freely into being without requiring any reasoning; requiring a reason would be a restriction which would need to be somehow imposed. in contrast, they say that, in fact, there wasn't a void, there was only a God entity filling up everything until this entity withdrew from a part of itself (from another part of itself I suppose) so form a space (or a void?) into which creation subsequently appeared

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Kabbalistic Judaism also addresses the capacity for somethingness to emerge from nothingness. Very interesting interpretations of these metaphysical puzzles.

by david-cako 6y ago

jedimind 6y ago
Nope, you should read your sources properly, it clearly says that the divine creates something from nothing, NOT that something emerges from nothing by nothing: "before the universe was created there was only Ayin, and the first manifest Sephirah (Divine emanation), Chochmah (Wisdom), "comes into being out of Ayin."[1] In this context, the sephirah Keter, the Divine will, is the intermediary between the Divine Infinity (Ein Sof) and Chochmah"
naringas 6y ago
so basically, the God entity withdrew (contracted, rescinded) its infinite presence and thus us finite creatures came to be? I had thought that the nature of the void (i.e. nothingness), or rather, its lack of a nature is what allowed stuff to freely appear into existence (as many times as it wants). the void imposes no restrictions because it is not really there to impose them. stuff pops freely into being without requiring any reasoning; requiring a reason would be a restriction which would need to be somehow imposed. in contrast, they say that, in fact, there wasn't a void, there was only a God entity filling up everything until this entity withdrew from a part of itself (from another part of itself I suppose) so form a space (or a void?) into which creation subsequently appeared