The Grand Tzimtzum Debate—and the View of the Alter Rebbe
For Hashem, All Remains Undefined, Infinite Oneness; But the Entire Point was Fusion and Embodiment, So We Need to Work It Out Within Ourselves
Basi L'gani 5725 #4
- January 21, 2025
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- 21 Tevet 5785
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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לעילוי נשמת הרה”ג הרה”ח שניאור חיים הכהן
בן הרה”ג הרה”ח מרדכי זאב הכהן
Dedicated by Ezra Dovid Philipp to the Rebbe, and his shluchim, for creating a revolution to bring Moshiach now.
Class Summary:
This class was presented on Tuesday, 21 Teves, 5785, January 21, 2025, Parshas Vaera, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
This fourth class in the series on the discourse of Basi Legani, presented by the Rebbe on 10 Shevat 5725 (1965), explores the four views in Kabbalah on the Tzimtzum, the concealment of the Divine as the prerequisite of creation, and the view of the Alter Rebbe that in the True Essence, there was no concealment or withdrawal of any sort.
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Basi L'gani 5725 #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
- January 21, 2025
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- 21 Tevet 5785
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- 675 views
לעילוי נשמת הרה”ג הרה”ח שניאור חיים הכהן
בן הרה”ג הרה”ח מרדכי זאב הכהן
Dedicated by Ezra Dovid Philipp to the Rebbe, and his shluchim, for creating a revolution to bring Moshiach now.
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Anonymous -14 days ago
There is nothing else but G-d. Why bother with all the history, complicated laws, pain and suffering. Why bother with Moshiach. There is nothing else but G-d.
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Anonymous -14 days ago
The yidden already paid the price
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Moshe Isenberg -14 days ago
There is a dispute among the mikubolim whether
The tzimtzum included the luminary source , the "M'ohr" or the resulting ray of light, the "ohr". BUT the pasuk says that Hashem said "Yehi Ohr" , not ""Yehi M'ohr". That should solve the debate.
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Moshe Isenberg -14 days ago
Why not just leave the kav of light when vacating the pre-tzimtzum
Light, instead of vacating all and restarting with the kav? Obviously the post-tzimtzum kav is qualitatively different than the kav that could have been excluded from the tzimtzum. Recall that Hashem created the world according to din before scrapping that and restarting again according to rachamim. This restarting is related to the total vacating of the light that existed before tzimtzum.
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Moshe Isenberg -14 days ago
"From the seminal point after tzimtzum came ...
The whole world. This point very closely resembles the graphic description of the physicists and astronomers how the "big bang" occured which generated all of creation
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