In Cabbalah, "Tzim-Tzum" is the contrast of absolute unity in the context of complete wholeness. Cabbalah teaches that creation continuously unfolds from the "Tzim-Tzum " process. The hidden transcendent Absolute, Deus Absconditus had to contract itself to produce the place for the creation. If En-Sof is everything, if It is unlimited and endless, here there is no "space" for the created universe. Therefore En-Sof, or Unlimited Light contracted from the center to "empty" a place for the world. The technical term for this contraction is "ZimZum" (tzimtzum).
ZimZum is interpreted as God's self-limitation for the benefit of the creation.Beta (308), The second letter, has challenging, perhaps even demonic connotations. Numerically 2, the 'second one', is always seen as the breaker of unity, and, in dualistic religions, it became identified with the demonic challenger to the unity of God. Often this challenger is called the 'Other One', acknowledging the challenging aspect of the second that always threatens to become the first by rivaling or overthrowing it. In Christian terms, this negative aspect was personified as the Devil. But also, the second brings with it the possibility of reunification. Without the second, the monad, complete in itself, is devoid of relationships, and therefore there can be no existence. All religions which see the universe as having a creator recognize this necessity, symbolized here by Beta.
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