Isaac Luria And The Shattering Of The Vessels (Safed, 16th Century CE) | Oriva
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Isaac Luria And The Shattering Of The Vessels (Safed, 16th Century CE)In Safed in the 1500s, Isaac Luria describes how the cosmos is engineered.Creation begins as light poured into vessels. The vessels (containers of resistance) cannot hold it and shatter — shevirat ha-kelim. The light scatters as sparks, and the sparks are trapped in klipot, husks (smaller containers of resistance).Humanities task is to gather the sparks and repair what broke, a process called tikkun. Not worship. Repair work, distributed across every person alive.