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Olam HaTohu (Hebrew: עוֹלָם הַתֹּ֫הוּ, lit. 'The World of Chaos') and Olam HaTikun (עוֹלָם הַתִקוּן "The World of Rectification") are two general stages in Jewish Kabbalah in the order of descending spiritual worlds known as "the Four Worlds". In subsequent creation, they also represent two archetypal spiritual states of being and consciousness. Their concepts derive from the new scheme of Lurianic Kabbalah by Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the father of modern Kabbalah, based on his interpretation of classic references in the Zohar.
The implications of tohu and tikkun underlie the origin of free will and the evil realm of the qlippoth caused by the "Shattering of the Vessels" (שְבִירַת הַכֵּלִים), the processes of spiritual and physical exile and redemption, the meaning of the 613 commandments, and the messianic rectification of existence.
Tikkun also means the esoteric sifting or clarification (בירור) of concealed divine sparks (ניצוצות) exiled in physical creation. This new paradigm in Kabbalah replaced the previous linear description of descent by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero with a dynamic process of spiritual enclothement, where higher souls invest inwardly in lower "vessels".
The cosmic drama of tikkun in Lurianic Kabbalah inspired the 16th-18th century popular Jewish imagination, explaining contemporary oppression and supporting messiah claimants, but the most important tikkun is to have peace and order in Creation. The revivalist Hasidic Judaism from the 18th century onwards, internalised esoteric Lurianism through its own concern with experiencing divine omnipresence amidst daily material life.
The terminology of the modern ideal of tikkun olam "repairing the world" is taken from the Lurianic concept, but applied more widely to ethical activism and justice in contemporary society.
Olam HaTohu (Hebrew: עוֹלָם הַתֹּ֫הוּ, lit. 'The World of Chaos') and Olam HaTikun (עוֹלָם הַתִקוּן "The World of Rectification") are two general stages...
Japanese word "tofu" Tohu wa-bohu, the Hebrew phrase from the Book of Genesis, usually translated "formless and empty" TohuandTikun, the two stages of...
Shekhinah was exiled to the qlippoth due to the shattering of divinity into TohuandTikun, which is a natural part of its cosmological model of Creation. This...
processes of TohuandTikun, "Chaos and Rectification". Medieval Kabbalah described the ten sefirot as divine channels that emanate from their source and descend...
Adam Kadmon precipitate TohuandTikun. As Keter is elevated above the sefirot, so Adam Kadmon is supreme above the Worlds, and therefore it is generally...
significance emerges in Lurianic Kabbalah as part of the process of TohuandTikun. Nekudim is the second of three stages to emerge from Adam Kadmon (Akudim...
taught: "The world consists of six thousand years: two thousand unformed (tohu), two thousand of Torah, two thousand years the era of the messiah—but due...
significance emerges in Lurianic Kabbalah as a part of the process of TohuandTikun. Berudim is the third of three stages to emerge from Adam Kadmon (Akudim...
Tikkun/Tikun/Tiqqun (תיקון) is a Hebrew word meaning "amending/fixing". It has several connotations in Judaism: Tikkun (book), a book of Torah scroll...
Creation, and the concepts of Olam HaTohu (Hebrew: עולם התהו "The World of Tohu-Chaos") and Olam HaTikun (Hebrew: עולם התיקון "The World of Tikun-Rectification")...
esoteric Christian order formed by Robert Wentworth Little between 1865 and 1867. While the SRIA is not a Masonic order (unattached to any Grand Lodge...
to the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar, other well-known explications of the relation between Ein Sof and all other realities and levels of reality have...
a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Golden...
disharmony in the Sephirot is located earlier, in the primordial Realm of Tohu before the creation of Man, though later sin brings further exile. The task...
contains parts that pertain to the Zohar, as well as Tikunim (plural of Tikun, "Repair") that are akin to Tikunei haZohar, as described below. The term...
of evil if performed under circumstances that were holy (Q-D-Š) and pure, tumah and taharah (טומאה וטהרה). The concern of overstepping Judaism's strong...
perceptible to the senses and partakes of earthly qualities. Philo is evidently combining philosophy and Midrash, Plato and the rabbis. [citation needed]...
and not nine, ten and not eleven". As altogether 11 sefirot are listed across the various schemes, two (Keter and Da'at) are seen as unconscious and conscious...
'nothingness', related to אֵין ʾên, lit. 'not') is an important concept in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy. It is contrasted with the term Yesh (Hebrew: יֵשׁ, lit...
(Shevirah), and whole (Tikun) from different perspectives; God experiences Himself as Other through Man, Man embodies and completes (Tikun) the Divine...
transliterated as Cabala (also Cabbala) to distinguish it from the Jewish form and from Hermetic Qabalah. The movement was influenced by a desire to interpret...
Partzufim of Keter, form the three Reishin (Heads) of Keter. The Lurianic Tikun rectification process of the world of Atzilut begins with its Keter-"Crown"...
significance emerges in Lurianic Kabbalah, as a stage in the process of TohuandTikun. Akudim (עֲקוּדִים in Hebrew) is the first world to result from Adam...
corresponds to the archetypal realms of TohuandTikun ("Chaos and Rectification") described in the new doctrines of Luria. Tohu causes Shevirat HaKeilim ("Shattering...
esoteric mysticism. In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" or "wheel" and neshamot is the plural for "souls." Souls are seen to cycle through lives...
in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The root of the word ṣadiq, is ṣ-d-q (צדק tsedek)...
religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman...
allegedly once part of an ongoing oral tradition. The written texts are obscure and difficult for readers who are unfamiliar with Jewish spirituality which assumes...
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