Ein Sof
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Sep 14, 2026
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The place of its exaltation is unknown to men and angels, and this is held to be intimated by the prophet when he said: Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place, or as the Zohar renders it, in the place wherein he resides.
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I suppose that this may be regarded as a short introduction to the doctrine of the Infinite, as this finds expression in the Zohar under the name of Ein Sof, or the divine essence abiding in the simplicity and undifferentiation of perfect unity.
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The Latin equivalent is sine fine carens, that is to say, without end; and it is customary to translate Ein Sof our as limitless light, that which is without end being held to be without beginning.
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Ein Sof is, however, understood in the Zohar as the limitless mystery of divine thought, the centre of all and the secret of all secrets God unknown and unknowable in respect of his essence.
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The references to this state of deity are comparatively few in the Zohar, and it was unknown to the Book of Formation which preceded it.
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There are important developments concerning it in later Cabalism, which located it above Kether in the Sephirotic Tree and regarded this first Sephirah sphere or numeration as the throne of the Infinite, adding that Ein Sof dwells in the hiddenness thereof.
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The Zohar testifies: One, that God is essentially without form; but in his manifestation he is seen or discerned under different aspects, according to a scale of degrees extending to thirty-two and constituting the paths of wisdom, which will be mentioned hereafter in connection with the Book of Formation.
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Two, that the most secret of all mysteries is that which is called Nothing, being the Most Holy Ancient, from whom the light flows forth.
speaker_0HOST
Six.
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What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them, the light and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
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Again, the line connects all the circles together.
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Six.
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What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends, and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them.
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The
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line and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
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line, which is an illumination of straightness, seemingly breaks through the tops of the circles, passes through the circles, descending and extending downward to the siyum, meaning to the middle point.
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Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them, The light and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
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Again, the line connects all the circles together.
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Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends, and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
The
speaker_0HOST
line and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
speaker_0HOST
line, which is an illumination of straightness, seemingly breaks through the tops of the circles, passes through the circles, descending and extending downward to the siyum, meaning to the middle point.
speaker_0HOST
Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them, the light and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
speaker_0HOST
Again, the line connects all the circles together.
speaker_0HOST
Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends, and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
The
speaker_0HOST
line and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
speaker_0HOST
line, which is an illumination of straightness, seemingly breaks through the tops of the circles, passes through the circles, descending and extending downward to the siyum, meaning to the middle point.
speaker_0HOST
Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them, the light and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
speaker_0HOST
Again, the line connects all the circles together.
speaker_0HOST
Six.
speaker_0HOST
What connects all the circles together is that thin line that expands from Ein Sof and passes and descends, and is extended from circle to circle until the very last one of them.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
The
speaker_0HOST
line and the abundance that each of them needs is extended through that line.
speaker_0HOST
line, which is an illumination of straightness, seemingly breaks through the tops of the circles, passes through the circles, descending and extending downward to the siyum, meaning to the middle point.
Yossi PaltielHOST
VeTzadach Lahoven Et Heitiv.
Yossi PaltielHOST
The question becomes, Eich, how could you say that a Ein Sof Chad Im Gamarei Hen HaKeilim? How could you say that Ein Sof is one with the Gamarei, which is the Keilim? Harei HaKeilim Hebechin Hazut BaTachas, the vessels are actually limited, MaSheh Kus BeHeichaim, as it says in Kabbalah, and Ein Sof is infinite.
Yossi PaltielHOST
So how could you say that Hashem is one with the Keilim? Now, I am gonna go out on a limb and say something, which I believe.
Yossi PaltielHOST
And I think I have a makka for it, but I'm not sure.
Yossi PaltielHOST
The, the biuk is that we're talking about Chitzoni Yitza Keilim.
Yossi PaltielHOST
Chitzoni Yitza Keilim are ma'amar is gevul.
Yossi PaltielHOST
And the question is, how could you say that Ein Sof is one with Keilim that are gevul? And the answer is, on the Makavani, the answer is, "Loimashen HaLakut," to say that they're called godliness only in one respect.
Yossi PaltielHOST
"Livri Yesh MeAyin Kemei Ein Sof." That they should be able to make Yesh MeAyin something that should appear to exist in an independent way.
BorisHOST
For what? They say if you have the most lofty goal for which the world was created, why do we have so much, uh, so many animals I heard from Rav? Well, it was enough, a, a dog and a cat.
BorisHOST
Why do we need so many to create such a rich and broad world, and complicated? If we repeat what you said earlier, that there are several details, conditions upon which we base the rest of our advancements, then one of them called none else besides Him, where all our corporeality is the cascading of that light of Ein Sof to this world, then it means that the whole world was given to us for work.
BorisHOST
And the fact that we want to distinguish ourselves or isolate ourselves, I just want to deal in spiritual, spiritual work.
BorisHOST
Leave me with a mortgage and having to make an earn- have earnings, and have to vote in the elections, and why this whole mess? This world was given to us so that within it, we'll be able to create connections between us, and in these connections between us feel the Creator.
Ian ShoalesCORRESPONDENT
I don't know.
Ian ShoalesCORRESPONDENT
And there's Ein Sof, the endless one.
Ian ShoalesCORRESPONDENT
This is the name of God in Kabbalah before creation.
Ian ShoalesCORRESPONDENT
A boundless God, completely transcendent, beyond human thought, with no traits, no actions, preceding all form and structure.
BrandonHOST
Yeah, that's a good way of stating it.
BrandonHOST
I've always really enjoyed the ideal of how the logos from Kether of that Ain Sof, the limitless light, kind of sends its lightning bolt bits of information into that typorethic sun force, that sun center of the tree of life, and then how it expands itself.
BrandonHOST
And the reason we see one figure as the son of God is because we kind of...
BrandonHOST
We need to kind of have that anthropomorphized figure so we can see the path being walked type of ideal.
Avraham ZajacHOST
David HaMelech says, "Oite oir k'salma," which means that He, referring to Hashem, that He wraps Himself with light as with a garment.
Avraham ZajacHOST
Now, taking a step back, being that the worlds are created from the Ein Sof.
Avraham ZajacHOST
Ein Sof, by definition means the infinite light of Hashem.
Avraham ZajacHOST
The worlds are finite, which is why they are defined as a world.
Avraham ZajacHOST
And in order for something infinite to be able to be invested in and to create something that's finite, an intermediary is mamash necessary, right, to bridge infinity and finitude.
Avraham ZajacHOST
What is the intermediary? We know that this is the Torah, and it is regarding the Torah that David HaMelech says this posek, "Oite oir k'salma." Now, for the intermediary to be able to actually serve as a bridge, it has to have in it something that is infinite, which is why it's connected to the infinity, to the Ein Sof.
Avraham ZajacHOST
There also must be an aspect in this bridge, in this intermediary that is finite, which is why it's able to bring down from the infinite into the finite.
Avraham ZajacHOST
And indeed, Torah has in it these two aspects.
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