Chagiga 12A - 4: The Name Shin-Dalet-Yud
- Review of ten things with which the world was created
- The world at Creation was expanding until God shouted at it and it stood still
- The name Shadai means that he told the world "Enough!"
- Explanation of the metaphor of the two spools of warp thread
- Finding the balance between Chesed and Din
- The relationship between the word שם (name) and two names of God
- Each person has this desire to expand infinitely within
- The expansion was taking the world further from God to allow room for people to exist, but hiding God's presence
- For each person there is a limit to what he can do
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