Adam Kadmon

Adam qadmon, often Adam Kadmon, Hebrew אדם קדמון, primitive man ', is understood according to the statements of the Kabbalah and Haggadah as the archetype of man. Whose image is the earthly man. The earthly man but lost the three wisdoms, which provide the Adam qadmon on the side of God, namely, wisdom, glory, and immortality.

In the history of mysticism, the figure of Adam qadmon often led to considerations of a schema about the human condition as it was at the beginning and as it should be at the end.

By Adam qadmon and the Sefirot

"His head is a triad of wisdom and intelligence, which are surmounted by the crown symbolizes dominion. The chest, the beauty is connected to the right arm of mercy and the left arm of justice. In a third triad dominate the genitals, which are referred to as a foundation, the right leg, the strength and the left leg, the splendor, which in turn form a triad with the feet, which mean Kingdom. "

Hugh J. Schonfield ( Bernard Lubinski " Deciphering three great cosmic mysteries ," WLPomian, Göttingen, 2001). Angular rate of the ten Sefirot in the quotation only for better understanding.

Adam qadmon and Creation

The creation begins after the Kabbalist Isaac Luria in the first phase by the tzimtzum, a self-limitation of the divine infinite being En Sof. This self-limitation leads to a primordial space where the appointed Adam qadmon forms as archetype of all being by the structure of the Sefirot. This Adam qadmon is also for the subsequent creation of the Creator God, as the divine power in the form of light breaks through orifices of his body and emanates into the world.

The second phase of creation is initiated by the Qlīpōt the imperfection of the vessels which were to have this divine light. The self caused by a lower light mixture vessels break under the impact of the light of Adam qadmon. This is the Schvirat ha - Kelim, the, breaking of the vessels '. The ruins of this Qlīpōt mingle again with sparks of divine light, and will get its own demonic life.

To resolve this cosmic disaster, breaking a special light from the forehead of Adam qadmon. This light heralds the third phase of creation, the Tiqqun, the restitution. So we are instantaneously in this phase of the restoration and cleaning. But not only the divine self, even every creature, after Luria participate in the Tiqqun by the excess of directing forces ( corresponding to those of Səfīrat Gəvūrā ) that caused the Švīrā, an appropriate level of forces of love and grace ( Səfīrat hesed ) opposes.

The creation by Isaac Luria is also seen as a self-cleaning of God from an inherent evil. So everything that exists is aligned on a target that, by Tiqqun to combat this evil, and ultimately to create a pure being.