ZimzumThe Hebrew word zimzum originally means contraction, withdrawal, retreat, limitation, and concentration. In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for Gods 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 make room for