Ayn Sof Information is host to a few key articles on various topics in Jewish Mysticism written by well respected Rabbis, Scholars, and their students. Some of these articles are not yet published in any books or other source material, however, the original authors do retain full ownership and copyright to their material regardless of how it is presented here. Although the formatting of each document is modified for readability, the author's work has not otherwise been significantly changed and any typographical errors, misspellings or omissions are unintentional.

Ayn Sof offers new publications that are being presented in the area and study of the Jewish mystical tradition often referred to as Kabbalah. As these articles reach the awareness of the author of this website, they will be presented here, although sometimes after they are made available elsewhere. 

DIRECT LINKS TO CURRENT "AYN SOF" ARTICLES:

Rabbi Gershon Winkler on The "Ten Commandments?"

Daniel C. Matt on "Beyond the Personal God"

Rabbi Simon Jacobson "In The Beginning..."

Rabbi David Cooper, Excerpt From "The Ecstatic Kabbalah..."

As a matter of interest, I am often asked what the term "Ayn Sof" means.  Here is a brief explanation taken from our sister website:

Ayn Sof (sometimes transliterated as Ein Sof in English) refers to the Divine (or G_d).  In Hebrew it means "Boundlessness", but is usually translated as "Without End." It is often referred to as the "Infinite No-Thingness."  It should be clearly understood that this does NOT mean that It is "nothing" for It is NOT a THING, but is a "somethingness" that cannot be defined or fully understood by the human mind. Ayn Sof, in the Jewish Kabbalistic tradition, is the ultimate source of all existence!

As a matter of additional insight, Daniel Matt writes that Ayn Sof is the "oneness of it all that we call G_d." In Genesis, the opening line of the 1st verse is usually translated "In the Beginning, G_d created the heavens and the earth" (KJV).  In regards to this verse, the Zohar (the great Mystical text of Jewish Kabbalah) interpreted the meaning of the original Hebrew a little differently. With that mystical understanding, a better translation of this verse would be "With a beginning, (It) created G_d, heavens and earth". The "It" is that Oneness, the Infinite No-Thingness...of course then that begs us to ask the question: To what is the G_d that is referred to that "It" created? That's a topic that I'm sure I'll address in a future article.

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