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TABLE of CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1. Science and Religion Cosmology and the Kabbalah Preconceptions and Prejudices Motivations and Questions The Path Ahead .................................................................................... Chapter 2. Two Views of Cosmology Science versus Religion: Disparate Views of Creation The Modern Scientific Picture The Expanding Cosmos Corroborating Evidence Large-Scale Properties [? before: Homogeneous, isotropic, accelerating] Chapter 3. The Paradox of "Without-Limit" General Relativity: A Scientific Perspective on Unity Special Relativity: the Coupling of Space and Time Chapter 4. The Cosmic Cast The Four Forces The Particles and their Forms The Bosons The Fermions Anti-Matter Dark Matter A Recapitulation A Unified Picture of Forces and Particles ............................................. Strings? The Inflationary Universe The Sefirot: Force and Substance in the Kabbalah ....................... One from Many: The Revelations of Symmetry Chapter 5. Moments of Creation The Sefirot in Creation Before the Big Bang: The World of Atzilut: .... The Sefirah of Keter The Big Bang through the Great Inflation: The World of Briyah The Sefirot of Hokhmah and Binah Inflation to Atoms; the Parting of Radiation and Matter: The World of Yetzirah: Epoch of Quarks Epoch of Leptons Epoch of Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epoch of Matter The Sefirot of Hesed, Gevurah, and Tiferet The Parting to the Formation of Galaxies, Stars, Planets, and Life: The World of Assiyah The Epoch of Matter The Sefirot of Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malkhut Chapter 6. Cosmic Wisdom The Awesome Universe [[heading could perhaps could be dropped??]] Wisdom (Hokhmah) and the Universe The Anthropic Principle A Miraculous World? A Purposeful World? Chapter 7. A Quantum of Sense Quantum Mechanics and Awareness (Yirah) Purpose and the Kabbalah From Nothing, Everything Chapter 8. Miraculous Will Intelligence and Self Awareness Free Will Intelligent Life in the Universe Miracles Chapter 9. Before, After, and Otherwise The Ending Before the Beginning Distant Horizons and Countless Universes Chapter 10. Concluding Observations Is It True? Drawing Lessons Closing Meditation Tree of Life- Ladder of Sefirot Schematic of the Evolution of the Cosmos from the Big Bang to Jason Chart of the Sefirot (maybe unnecessary with the prior 2?) Notes, (including citations and recommendations for Further Reading) References Figure Citations
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Judaism and science.
Cosmology.
Cabala -- History.
Sefirot (Cabala).
Creation.