TY - BOOK A1 - Schulte, Christoph T1 - Zimzum BT - God and the Origin of the World T3 - Jewish culture and contexts N2 - The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the sixteenth century, positing that the God who was “Ein-Sof,” unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must concentrate himself in the zimzum and withdraw in order to make room for the creation of the world in God’s own center. At the same time, God also limits his infinite omnipotence to allow the finite world to arise. Without the zimzum there is no creation, making zimzum one of the basic concepts of Judaism. The Lurianic doctrine of the zimzum has been considered an intellectual showpiece of the Kabbalah and of Jewish philosophy. The teaching of the zimzum has appeared in the Kabbalistic literature across Central and Eastern Europe, perhaps most famously in Hasidic literature up to the present day and in philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem’s epoch-making research on Jewish mysticism. The Zimzum has fascinated Jewish and Christian theologians, philosophers, and writers like no other Kabbalistic teaching. This can be seen across the philosophy and cultural history of the twentieth century as it gained prominence among such diverse authors and artists as Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Jonas, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harold Bloom, Barnett Newman, and Anselm Kiefer. This book follows the traces of the zimzum across the Jewish and Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over more than four centuries, where Judaism and Christianity, theosophy and philosophy, divine and human, mysticism and literature, Kabbalah and the arts encounter, mix, and cross-fertilize the interpretations and appropriations of this doctrine of God’s self-entanglement and limitation Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-1-5128-2435-3 SN - 978-1-5218-2436-0 N1 - Originally published as: Zimzum: Gott und Weltursprung. - Berlin : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014 PB - University of Pennsylvania Press CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kytmanov, Alexander M. A1 - Myslivets, Simona A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Zeta-function of a nonlinear system T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Institut für Mathematik, Arbeitsgruppe Partiell Y1 - 2004 SN - 1437-739X PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK ED - Alexiadou, Artemis ED - Fuhrhop, Nanna T1 - ZAS papers in linguistics Y1 - 1997 SN - 1435-9588 PB - ZAS CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Writing-between-worlds BT - transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode T3 - Mimesis ; 64 Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-11-046109-1 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank T1 - World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach T3 - Applications of cognitive linguistics Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-11-019633-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199222 VL - 8 PB - Mouton de Gruyter CY - Berlin, New York ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Chhibber, Ajay A1 - Commander, Simon A1 - Evans, Alison A1 - Fuhr, Harald T1 - World Development Report 1997 : the state in a changing world Y1 - 1997 PB - Oxford Uni. Press CY - New York ER - TY - BOOK ED - Boldt, Oliver ED - Jürgensen, Helmut ED - Robbins, L. E. T1 - Workshop on Implementing Automata : WIA99 - pre-proceedings ; Potsdam, Germany, 17 - 19. July 1999 T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Institut für Informatik Y1 - 1999 SN - 0946-7580 VL - 1999, 4 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Addison, John T. A1 - Schnabel, Claus A1 - Wagner, Joachim T1 - Works councils in Germany : their effects on firm performance T3 - Diskussionsbeitrag / Europäisches Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Potsdam Y1 - 1998 SN - 1430-5445 VL - 46 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Bartke, Susanne A1 - Siegmüller, Julia T1 - Williams syndrome across languages T3 - Language acquisition and language disorders Y1 - 2004 SN - 1-588-11494-5 VL - 36 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen T1 - Why do all the curvature invariants of a gravitational wave vanish? T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Institut für Mathematik Y1 - 1994 VL - 1994, 03 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER -