Zimzum Mai Yamani Journal of the Early Republic''Parsons

Journal of the Early Republic''Parsons makes a convincing argument for a much closer connection between discourses of women's rights and temperance in the nineteenth century

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Zimzum Mai Yamani Journal of the Early Republic''ParsonsThe 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