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Pegam (Spiritual Blemish / Damage to the Worlds)
The cosmic damage wrought by sin upon the sefirotic structure and divine union — the negative counterpart to Tikkun; foundational to Lurianic theurgy and the doctrine of Pegam HaBrit.
Pegam means a 'blemish' or 'flaw.' In Kabbalah it carries an unsettling idea: a human sin doesn't just stain the sinner — it damages the spiritual worlds above, the sefirotic structure and the divine union within it. It is the dark mirror image of Tikkun (repair): where a good deed mends the cosmos, a wrong one wounds it. The idea is foundational to Lurianic theurgy and to the doctrine of Pegam HaBrit.
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