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Yes — you can meaningfully compare Kabbalistic Raddalah to Vedantic Māyā, especially in their shared role of liminality, separation, and paradoxical concealment of truth. But they’re not identical. Here’s a breakdown:

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Raddalah in Kabbalah

• From the Hebrew root “בדל” (badal) meaning to separate or distinguish.
• Refers to divine separation—the way God “withdraws” or creates a boundary between light and vessels, sacred and profane, upper and lower realms.
• Associated with Binah (Understanding), which gives form and limitation to the infinite.
• Raddalah creates distinctions necessary for manifestation, yet is rooted in unity.
• Often invoked during Havdalah (ritual separation of Sabbath from weekday).

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Māyā in Vedanta

• Sanskrit for illusion, appearance, or measuring out.
• Māyā is Brahman’s creative power that projects the universe of duality and form.
• It veils the non-dual Absolute (Brahman), making the One appear as many.
• Māyā is neither real nor unreal, just as a dream is neither fully nothing nor fully true.

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Parallel Functions

Concept	Kabbalah (Raddalah)	Vedanta (Māyā)
Ultimate Reality	Ein Sof (Infinite, undifferentiated)	Brahman (Absolute, nondual)
Mechanism of Manifestation	Separation, constriction, vessels	Projection, illusion, veiling
Role of Duality	Necessary for creation and discernment	Necessary for appearance of multiplicity
Goal	Reunification through discernment	Realization of nonduality (Advaita)

🧘 Metaphorical Convergence

• Raddalah is like the “curtain” that makes distinctions from unity possible—but the curtain is semi-transparent.
• Māyā is like the “mirror” that reflects forms, making the formless appear as many—but the mirror is also Brahman.

🕊️ In Essence

Yes, Raddalah can be considered the Kabbalistic counterpart of Vedantic Māyā — both express how the One becomes the many, and how discernment leads back to unity. But while Māyā is often illusion-veiling-truth, Raddalah is divine distinction enabling understanding.

Would you like a diagram comparing their metaphysical flows?