ספר בראשית

"Heaven and earth and all their components were complete; for on that day G’d had ceased from all ‎His work that He had created to be continued; (or, to complete it).”‎‎ [The last words in the paragraph are especially enigmatic, as the beginning of the paragraph ‎creates the impression that the Torah reports about the conclusion of the work of creation. Ed.]‎ Rabbi Levi Yitzchok understands the words ‎השמים והארץ‎ as referring to the sum total of the ‎tangible universe, reminding us that our sacred texts teach us that prior to the creation of the ‎universe there was only what is known in kabbalistic parlance as ‎אין סוף‎, G’d as an “infinite,” a ‎concept that is beyond our capacity to understand. The story of creation conveys how through the ‎creation of the universe as we know it, this “infinite” became transformed into something finite ‎both in space and in time.