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===Examples=== ''Yichudah Ilaah'' ("Higher Unity") and ''Yichudah Tataah'' ("Lower Unity"), the two levels of perceiving [[God in Judaism|God's Monotheism]]. This alternative paradox is explained in the second section of the [[Tanya (Judaism)|Tanya]], reflecting the author's most metaphorical interpretation of the [[Lurianic Kabbalah|Lurianic]] [[Tzimtzum]], tending to [[Acosmism|Acosmic]] [[Monism]]. See [[Divine providence (Judaism)#Divine unity in Hasidism|Divine Unity in Hasidism]]. <blockquote>... It seems to the lower worlds as if the light and lifeforce of the Omnipresent, blessed be He...were something apart from His blessed Self ... Yet in regard to the Holy One, blessed be He, there is no tzimtzum, concealment and occultation that would conceal and hide before Him ... for the tzimtzumim and garments are not things distinct from His blessed Self, heaven forefend, but (Genesis Rabba 21:5) "like the snail whose garment is part of its very self"{{sfnp|Schneur Zalman|1796}}</blockquote> Higher and Lower Da'at relates to the Upper and Lower [[Chokmah]] (Wisdom), the first of the three intellectual [[sephirot]]. The [[Zohar]] predicts, based on its interpretation of the upper and lower waters of [[Noah's flood]] (rains from above, wellsprings from below), that in the sixth century of the Hebrew sixth millennium (corresponding to the secular years 1740-1840) Wisdom will flood the World in preparation for the [[Jewish messianism|Messianic era]]. In the [[Likkutei Sichos]] talks of the [[Lubavitcher Rebbe]],{{sfnp|Schneerson|1973}} he relates this prediction to the Higher Wisdom of [[Hasidic thought]] (called the [[Baal Shem Tov]]'s "Wellsprings") and the Lower Wisdom of secular Science and thought. In Kabbalah the two levels of Water/Wisdom correspond to the Higher and Lower Waters in the account of Creation in [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] I.{{sfnp|Fine|2003}} In Kabbalah's interpretation of the [[Tetragrammaton]] name of God, the first two letters are the "Concealed World" of Divine Intellect, corresponding to [[Atziluth]] and [[Beri'ah]] in the Four Worlds, and the last two letters are the "Revealed World" of Divine Emotions, corresponding to [[Yetzirah]] and [[Assiah]]. In the first section of [[Tanya (Judaism)|Tanya]],{{sfnp|Schneur Zalman|1796}} the Talmudic directive to bless God for misfortune as well as fortune is related to misfortune stemming from the higher hidden realms. In its source, the misfortune descends from a blessing too high to descend in revelation, as "no evil descends from above".{{sfnp|Schneerson|1973}} The [[Tetragrammaton]] and [[Elohim|Elokim]] Divine Names in Kabbalah correspond to infinite [[Divine transcendence|transcendent]] [[Ohr|encompassing light]] and finite [[Divine immanence|immanent]] [[Ohr|filling light]]. In [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] chapter 1 Creation takes place through Elokim, while in Genesis 2 through both names. In Hasidic interpretation the essential Tetragrammaton Divine Infinitude enacts creation Something from Nothing, but shines through the concealment of Elokim to allow Creation to seem independent from God.{{sfnp|Elior|1993}} In this Elokim becomes the means for revelation, as a Creation directly through the Tetragrammaton would be nullified. This corresponds to two levels of [[Ohr|Bittul]] (Nullification): ''Bittul HaMetzius'' ("Nullification of Essence") and ''Bittul HaYesh'' ("Nullification of Ego"). As the highest of the Four Worlds [[Atziluth]] is still emanation, before perceived Creation, relatively it reflects Essential Nullification. In comparison to the lower two Worlds, also [[Beri'ah]] has some relation to Higher Bittul through the enclothement of Wisdom (Atziluth) descending into Understanding (Beriah). Prophecy is explained in Kabbalah{{sfnp|Vital|1997b}} to be the letters of Creation in Atziluth, as they descend into Beriah. This means Divine transcendent insight descending into some understanding. Similarly, Beriah is described in Kabbalah as the realm of the Divine "[[Seraph|Throne]]", as the full emanated Divinity of Atziluth cloths itself through descent in Beriah, metaphorically as if descending onto a throne, to govern lower creation from above as a King.{{sfnp|Fine|2003}}
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