The World of Chaos and The World of Rectification

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The World of Chaos (Hebrew: עוֹלָם הַתֹּ֫הוּ, romanized: ʿOlām hatTohu) and The World of Rectification (Hebrew: עוֹלָם הַתִקוּן, romanized: ʿOlām hatTiqqun) are two general stages in Jewish Kabbalah in the order of descending spiritual worlds known as "the Four Worlds". In subsequent creations, 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 tiqqun underlie the origin of free will and the evil realm of the qlippoth caused by the "Shattering of the Vessels" (Hebrew: שְבִירַת הַכֵּלִים, romanized: Šəḇīraṯ hakkēlīm), 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...

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