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date: 17 March 2025

EIN SOF 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
Author(s):
Adele BerlinAdele Berlin, Maxine GrossmanMaxine Grossman

(; No End), kabbalistic term indicating the supreme divinity, the Godhead, the source of all divine and earthly existence. It may have originated with Hebrew descriptions of the Aristotelian concept of the primal cause. Several kabbalistic systems, including the Zohar, equate it with the first and highest ... ...

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