J.J. and Dr. Christoph Schulte contract a serious case of mystical curiousity, and diminish the mysteries around the idea of Tzimtzum. Prof. Dr. Christoph Schulte is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam since 2001 and for many years head of the Department of Jewish and Religious Studies. He studied Philosophy, Jewish Studies, Theology and Journalism in Heidelberg, Berlin and Jerusalem, did his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin 1987 and was a fellow and Visiting Professor in Jerusalem (1989-91), Montreal (1991), Paris (1992-93), Chicago (1995), Aix-en- Provence (1997-98), Philadelphia (2009/10), Zurich (2014), Basel (2016), Haifa (2017/2023), and Hamburg (2020). He received the Gleim-Preis (Halberstadt 2003) and the Inklusionspreis (Potsdam 2022). His most recent book publications are Von Moses bis Moses: Der jüdische Mendelssohn (Hannover 2020), Mendelssohn-Studien (Hannover 2023) and Zimzum: God and the Origin of the World (Philadelphia 2023).