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Animated Kabbalah #1: How Tzimtzum Works
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Duo
January 2, 2021
Great understanding!
Jeff Fisher
New York
December 8, 2020
This is amazing! More, please 🙏
Dina
December 5, 2020
Brilliant! Need to see more! When is the next episode being released?
Alter
Brooklyn
December 6, 2020
Please God, this Tuesday
Marcia
Skokie, IL
December 5, 2020
This is a very understandable explanation, one that young people and even some children could grasp. Looking forward to the next! Great creative project!
Sara Esther Spiero
Amsterdam, Holland
December 5, 2020
Thanks so much, I really love this.
Sue
Northwich
December 4, 2020
This is really great ! Thank you.
Rabbi Z.
Holy Land
December 3, 2020
Pretty good, however the basic premise that God was "lacking who to share with..." - in point of fact (from what I have learned...)
a. The ultimate reason - as the Rebbe says, the reason behind all the given reasons for Creation is that G-d foresaw us and "fell in love" - namely, He Identifies! which is the reason
1. He Wishes To "Dwell"" (Guide us... - have a relationship..) with US
b. The Reason He Loves Giving to US
c. The Reason He loves to be Known By Us
When becoming a source - one must check sources -semantics in obtuse and very subtle realities MATTER
Alter
Brooklyn
December 4, 2020
I definitely have to look at this closer, but this idea was based off two ideas: that at the beginning it was just "Him and His name", and "the nature of goodness is to do good".
Hashem wants to do good but it's just Him. Doing good needs a zulas, so He creates us.
It's obviously not that simple, but that's the point.
And your point that Hashem fell in love with us doesn't negate this point, it adds a reason of why God wants to do good with us, because He fell in love with us. So thank you for adding depth and background to why went through the process of creation.
Irene
December 3, 2020
What a beautiful tool and explanation! Thank you for your creativity, time, and hard work to bring this into being.
Marsha Roberts
California
December 3, 2020
Thank you. Well done.
Adam
December 3, 2020
Love this, can't wait for the next video!
Aleksandra
Belgrade
December 3, 2020
Beautiful video, todah rabah,
Shabbat Shalom
Richard Tenser
Los Angeles
December 3, 2020
Very pantheistic
Alter
Brooklyn
December 4, 2020
This episode focuses on how God Creates The world, which is by investing Himself in it, which is pantheistic.
In future videos we discuss how God is also infinitely beyond creation.
So He is both: completely invested and thoroughly beyond.
Panantheistic.
BitinDawg
Dawg Pound
December 3, 2020
It would take a truly inferior mind 2 swallow this as anything other than a brilliant rabbinical mind, manipulating sanitizing and anesthetizing the inferior minds of his flock.
Yehuda
Brooklyn
December 2, 2020
The electricity משל was very well done and the visuals for that part brought out the point of Tzimtzum very well.
I did not, however, see a direct relationship between the visuals used in the first part of the video and the concepts they were being used to describe (referring to the part of the video that describes Tzimtzum with all the circles and lines. Sure it may be loosely based on some Kabbalistic imagery, but the imagery itself is not explained at all in the video).
Perhaps text would work better in such a case.
Overall, great job explaining an essential concept of Kabbalah in very a down to earth way.
Keep up the good work!
Alter
Brooklyn
January 4, 2021
Thanks for the feedback!
We didn't go too into depth about the imagery, but it is relevant: we're saying that God does many tzimtzumim, getting progressively less potent. The viewer sees many consecutive tzimtzumim and each ring is smaller.
I would however, like to go into more detail about the graph on the podcast. Thanks for the idea!
Mendel
Los Angeles
December 2, 2020
Lehafshit dvorim migashmiyuson :)
A little different to how I imagined it but pretty cool stuff. Gotta make a kids game with all the levels to teach Seder hishtalshelus.
Alter
Brooklyn
December 2, 2020
It's funny, seems to be more megushom - you can almost touch it
Mendel
Los Angeles
December 8, 2020
Duy lechakima beremizah
George
December 2, 2020
Never realized I could visualize Torah so graphically! This is next level
Alter
Brooklyn
December 2, 2020
Isaiah says 'on that day all flesh will see' - apparently that day is coming closer
PM
via chabad.org
December 2, 2020
great human perspective how Hashem works.
Edward Markovich
December 1, 2020
This is great. Thank you.
Jacob
December 1, 2020
Amazing!! We need more videos like these!!
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Is it possible to get a copy of the first video before changed it? Animated Kabbalah: How G-d Creates the World- this was before the others were made.
It's on YouTube. Torah Visuals channel - make sure to subscribe!