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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “Innumerable worlds.”

The action of constriction can be seen (in a formal sense), paradoxically, as multiplicity and expansion.

One example of this is the passage from chokhmah [wisdom] to binah [understanding].

The initial flash of chokhmah contains a reality that is not composed of separate elements but is a complete gestalt.

However, when this gestalt passes to a level of structured understanding, binah, at least in a formal sense, the image is broadened.

The one spark of chokhmah expands into a variety of thoughts in binah, to be expressed by innumerable worlds.

—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz