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100.03 Kabbalistic Parallel<\/p>\n

Lurianic Kabbalah can be refocused in the light of this formulation. Indeed, if one takes the liberty of stripping Kab- balah of its majestic imagery down to its very core, it would seem that major elements of kabbalistic doctrine were groping or heading in this very direction.<\/p>\n

We would draw the following parallel and relationship:<\/p>\n

Infinite Holy Potential= En Sof<\/em>
\ncosmic quests for potential= Sefirot<\/em><\/p>\n

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A neo-kabbalistic variation of “infinite holy potential” would posit that the En Sof<\/em>-the infinite, the root of the Ten Sefirot,<\/em> “the Root of all Roots”227<\/sup>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d demanded greater expression. Within the obscurity of mystical doctrine, one factor is clear: the En Sof<\/em>– the PrimaVInfinite Divine-had “neither qualities nor attributes.”228<\/sup><\/p>\n

Our neo-kabbalistic development would posit that the kabbalist’s Ten Sefirot<\/em>, the next level of Divine emanation, demanded more tangible expression.229<\/sup> The Ten Sefirot<\/em> are variously described as the Ten Spheres, Regions, Faces, Manifestations, Crowns, Stages, Garments, Modes, Branches, Powers, Emanations-of God? The Ten Sefirot<\/em> are “the ten spheres of Divine manifestation in which God emerges from His hidden abode.”231<\/sup> They are most commonly enumerated as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
KETER ELYON<\/em><\/td>\n“Supreme Crown”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOKHMAH<\/em><\/td>\n”Wisdom”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BINAH<\/em><\/td>\n“Intelligence”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HESED<\/em><\/td>\n“Love\/Mercy”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GEVURAH<\/em><\/td>\n“Power”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAHAMIM<\/em><\/td>\n“Compassion”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NE TSAH<\/em><\/td>\n“Everlasting endurance”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOD<\/em><\/td>\n“Majesty”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
YESOD<\/em><\/td>\n“Foundation”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MALKHUTH<\/em><\/td>\n“Kingdom of God”232<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

One interpretation, which converges with our study, is that they are “the ten stages of the inner world, through which God descends from the inmost recesses down to His revelation in the Shekinah.<\/em>233 <\/sup>We would recast the Sefirot<\/em> as primal quests for potentiality which enable Infinite Holy Potential to “traverse the bridge” from “emptiness” to “Somethingness” and mandating Creation. They are the “transition from En Sof<\/em> to creation.”234<\/sup> There is, indeed, a significant current in kabbalistic doctrine which links the Sefirot<\/em> with the concept of potentiality.235<\/sup><\/p>\n

Every Sefirah<\/em> is transformed from a general attribute of God into what the Kabbalists call a Partsuf<\/em>, a “countenance” of God, which<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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227 <\/sup>See Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,<\/em> pp. 207, 208, 214.<\/p>\n

228 <\/sup>See ibid., p. 207. Cf. Maimonides, Guide<\/em> 3:20. Cf. Matt’s “introductidon” to Moses de Leon, in Zohar<\/em><\/em>, p. 33.<\/p>\n

229 <\/sup>See Hirsch, Chapters of the Fathers <\/em>on Avot 5:1. “By ten utterances was the world created …”<\/p>\n

230 <\/sup>Note Agus, The Evolution of Jewish Thought,<\/em> p. 287.<\/p>\n

231 <\/sup>See Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, <\/em>pp. 213-214.<\/p>\n

232 <\/sup>See ibid., pp. 213-214.<\/p>\n

233 <\/sup>Ibid., p. 214.<\/p>\n

234 <\/sup>Matt, Zohar<\/em><\/em>, p. 34.<\/p>\n

235 <\/sup>See Scholem, Origins of the Kabbalah<\/em>, pp. 8 1-84, 437.
\nCf. ibid., p. 450. “In their conception of the emanation, the kabbalists of Gerona unite the two motifs of the emergence from potentiality to actuality on the one hand, and of the maturation of the organic process, on the other.”
\nCF. Azriel of Gerona, Commentary on Talmudic Aggddoth,<\/em> p. 110 (lines 13-14 in particular), and idem, Perush Eser Sefirot, p. 4 (sec. gimel).
\nOn a very closely related track, the Book of Bahir deals with the aeons, or powers, of God. Scholem notes: “Each middah<\/em> [aeon] is a particular spiritual potency.” Ibid., p. 82.<\/p>\n

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means that all the potentialities implied in every Sefirah<\/em> are now brought under the influence of a formative principle.
\n-Vital236<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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236 <\/sup>Hayim Vital, Ets Hayim (Warsaw, 1891). XI, 7, p. 107, as cited in Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,<\/em> p. 269, n. 76.<\/p>\n

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