Tohu

Last updated March 07, 2019

Tohu can refer to:

Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league footballer
Tohu Kākahi, New Zealand Māori leader
Tohu, a biblical person (an ancestor of the prophet Samuel; 1 Samuel 1:1)

Tohu Harris is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative, he primarily plays as a second-row and lock, but can also fill in as a centre and five-eighth. Harris previously played for the Melbourne Storm with whom he won the 2017 NRL Premiership.

Tohu Kākahi was a Māori leader, a warrior leader in the anti government Hau Hau Movement 1864-66 and later a prophet at Parihaka, who along with Te Whiti o Rongomai organised passive resistance against the occupation of Taranaki in the 1870s in New Zealand.

Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In addition to his role in the Hebrew Scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in the New Testament, in rabbinical literature, and in the second chapter of the Qur'an, although here not by name. He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, written in the first century CE (AD).

Hebrew:

Tohu wa-bohu, the Hebrew phrase from the Book of Genesis, usually translated "formless and empty"
Tohu and Tikun: The two stages of Existence in Lurianic Kabbalah. The initial Olam-World of Tohu-Chaos collapses, to be replaced by the World of Tikun-Rectification

Tohu wa-bohu, is a Biblical Hebrew phrase found in the Genesis creation narrative that describes the condition of the earth (eretz) immediately before the creation of light in Genesis 1:3.

The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It is divisible into two parts, the Primeval history and the Ancestral history. The primeval history sets out the author's concepts of the nature of the deity and of humankind's relationship with its maker: God creates a world which is good and fit for mankind, but when man corrupts it with sin God decides to destroy his creation, saving only the righteous Noah to reestablish the relationship between man and God. The Ancestral History tells of the prehistory of Israel, God's chosen people. At God's command Noah's descendant Abraham journeys from his home into the God-given land of Canaan, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Jacob's name is changed to Israel, and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households, and God promises them a future of greatness. Genesis ends with Israel in Egypt, ready for the coming of Moses and the Exodus. The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind to a special relationship with one people alone.

Olam HaTohu and Olam HaTikun are two general stages in Jewish Kabbalah, in the order of descending spiritual Worlds (Olamot). In subsequent creation they also represent two archetypal spiritual states of being and consciousness. Their concepts derive from the new scheme of Lurianic Kabbalah by Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the father of modern Kabbalah, based on his interpretation of classic references in the Zohar.

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The realm known as Berudim/Verudim/Olam HaBerudim is one of the many spiritual worlds (Olamot) described by Kabbalah, as part of the order of development in Creation. Its significance emerges in Lurianic Kabbalah as a part of the process of Tohu and Tikun.