Tzimtzum

Ang Lee’s metaphorical survivor story, Life of Pi, concerns a teenage Indian multi-religious boy and his endurance of a two hundred and twenty-seven days lifeboat voyage with a tiger as his companion. Lee structures the story in a contemporary and distinctive sea voyage tale of “a story that will make you believe in God”. Despite the fact that there are moments other than the religious ones, most people favor the spiritual agenda. The religious symbolism are captured in name of the ship Pi is traveling

A Jewish Rabbi named Isaac Luria who is also called the father of modern Kabbalah came up with the philosophy of tzimtzum. Isaac Luria was a prominent rabbi in Jewish mysticism in Safed. Isaac Luria was born in 1534 Jerusalem, Israel. Isaac father died while he was still a child and he was raised by a very wealthy uncle in Cairo, Egypt. He was taught by the best rabbis

Religions have historically incorporated elements of mysticism into their broader teachings in order to help explain the inexplicable or to provide alternate routes to the Divine for their followers. While more the conservative sects of a religion typically look down upon mystical schools of thought for straying too far away from what is written in their sacred texts, most will simply accept them as another group of lost souls looking for answers to the universe’s deepest questions. In Judaism, mystical

reader perplexed as the plot unravels. The Life of Pi isn’t filled with exemplary lucidity, but rather challenges the reader to think deeper than the surface. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (2001), Martel tells the story through a Kabbalistic paradigm of tzimtzum, shevirat hakelim, tikkun olam.  which, in Christian terms, represents the creation, fall, and redemption of Pi as a spiritual person. In this book a boy named Pi goes on a mind boggling trip, in which he drastically