Shlomo Carlebach - Reb Nachman Teachings - God of "Empty Space" / Abraham Avinu / Truth / Moshe Rabb

Reb Shlomo Carlebach ztl - Deepest Teachings of Reb Nachman of Breslov - God of "Empty Space" / Abraham Avinu / Truth / Moshe Rabbeinu #ShlomoCarlebach #EmptySpace #Moshe #RebNachman Moshe Rabbeinu 8:40 The secret of Empty Space the secret of Silence A commonly held[3] understanding in Kabbalah is that the concept of tzimtzum contains a built-in paradox, requiring that God be simultaneously transcendent and immanent. Viz.: On the one hand, if the "Infinite" did not restrict itself, then nothing could exist—everything would be overwhelmed by God's totality. Existence thus requires God's transcendence, as above. On the other hand, God continuously maintains the existence of, and is thus not absent from, the created universe. The Divine life-force which brings all creatures into existence must constantly be present within them ... were this life-force to forsake any created being for even one brief moment, it would revert to a state of utter nothingness, as before the creation.[4] Rabbi Nachman of Breslav discusses this inherent paradox as follows: Only in the future will it be possible to understand the Tzimtzum that brought the "Empty Space" into being, for we have to say of it two contradictory things ... [1] the Empty Space came about through the Tzimtzum, where, as it were, He 'limited' His Godliness and contracted it from there, and it is as though in that place there is no Godliness ... [2] the absolute truth is that Godliness must nevertheless be present there, for certainly nothing can exist without His giving it life.