Why the World Feels Separate

If Divine light were revealed without restraint,

creation would lose all sense of identity.

Hashem wanted a world that experiences itself as independent

so that human beings could choose, grow,

and return to Him willingly.

That is the purpose of tzimtzum:

not to remove G-dliness,

but to conceal it enough

for creation to exist as itself.

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The Key Clarification

The concealment is real for us.

It is not real for Hashem.

To Him,

darkness and light are the same.

The veils do not block Him,

because they come from Him.

Like a shell that is part of the animal itself,

the concealment is not foreign to G-dliness.

It is G-dly.

That is why the Torah says:

Hashem is Elokim.

Revelation and concealment are one.

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The Message

Creation introduced change only

in how the world experiences Hashem.

It introduced no change in Hashem Himself.

What feels separate exists only because it is being held.

What feels distant exists only because it is being sustained.

From His perspective,

everything is still within Him,

utterly null,

and His oneness remains

exactly as it always was,

before creation and after.