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The First Havdalah
Let There Be Light, the Decoupling of the Universe, and Creation by Separation Synopsis Why does the Torah say that G‑d separated light from darkness
The Reshimu: A Hologram of Creation
1. What Remains When the Light Withdraws? In my previous essay, “Darkness on the Face of the Deep,” I explored the possibility that the primordial
Darkness on the Face of the Deep
Genesis says that darkness was “on the face of the deep” before light was created. This essay explores a striking structural parallel between the Torah’s created darkness, Kabbalistic hester and tzimtzum, and the event horizons of modern physics—boundaries that conceal without annihilating what lies beyond them.
Collapsing the Judgment on Hoshana Rabbah
On Hoshana Rabbah, in Chassidic circles, people wish one another a gut kvitl—Yiddish for “a good note.” A kvitl is a slip of paper, like
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