Kabbalists believe God existed in the form of pure energy in the time before creation.
The power of God's energy was so vast that it prevented anything else from existing in the universe.
To make room for the human race and everything else in the universe, God first had to recoil into itself..
Although the terminologies employed by these disparate disciplines are radically different, many contemporary innovations in science and mathematics are conceptually similar, if not identical, to ancient Kabbalistic principles.
The Kabbalistic dictum that "Kabbalah begins where philosophy ends" expressed their claim to superior knowledge, but can also be read as an appreciation of the foundations laid by Jewish philosophy.
Kabbalah is an example of a cosmology resembling our own which successfully penetrated and enriched the lives of a society.
In the sixteenth century, the great kabbalist Isaac Luria developed the scheme further, teaching that in the beginning, God began to withdraw into self-exile in order to make space for the universe.
The physical counterpart of the Divine light of kabbalah isthe primeval light of the big bang.
The standard theory of cosmology asserts that the entity that was created at the beginning of time was an enormous ball of light, popularly known as the big bang and hence, the name of the theory.
