The Torah describes God creating through speech, midrash mores specifically understands creation through the letters of the aleph-bet, and the kabbalists envision it as a series of divine emanations, contractions, and primal pairings. What meaning can we find in these ancient creation myths in light of evolution?Whatever you make of the modern mystical panentheism, the history of the midrashic and kabbalistic theology of creation is fascinating.
Arthur Green has written a great deal on Jewish mysticism and mystical theology. For an article by him on the Zohar, see here.
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