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Why Did G‑d Create the World?
This essay explores why G-d created the world and why human beings were created in His image, bringing classical Jewish explanations into conversation with the Chabad doctrine of Dirah Betachtonim. It proposes that the divine desire for a dwelling below may be understood as a desire for companionship—and that the image of G-d is what makes such reciprocal relationship possible.
The Pilot Wave of Righteousness
The Alter Rebbe read “tzedek lefanav yehalech” (Ps. 85:14) as righteousness conducting the giver; Bohm’s pilot wave describes matter guided by form rather than force. The parallel runs deep: Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders echo the Kabbalah’s concealed and revealed worlds — Alma d’Iskasya and Alma d’Isgalya — and the hidden and revealed divine light.
Why Ten? The Tetractys of the Divine Name
The number ten occupies a singular place in the architecture of the Torah. The world was created by the Ten Utterances (Asarah Ma’amarot). Egypt was
Is it Rational to Believe in God?
As a physicist, I found God in science. I cannot prove God’s existence because God does not exist in the ordinary sense; He transcends our
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