Vezot HaBracha: Tzimtzum as Theme of Jewish Tradition

It Has a Longer Genealogy than you'd expect at first glance.

So, there’s a kabbalistic idea called Tzimtzum that’s very interesting to me for reasons I will get into. But first, what is it?

Tzimtzum is an idea that responds to the following age old theological question. If God is omnipotent and omnipresent and all powerful, how does anything exist? If God is in everything, how can we have anything? Now, there have…