Creation ex nihilo/ out of nothing

The creation of something real out of emptiness; the emergence of something from non-being.

("And I also resolved all the great difficulties raised against us concerning our saying that God created all things ex nihilo" — Maimonides / Letter to the sages of Montpellier on the decree of the stars, 439, and likewise: "You are wise, and from your wisdom You drew forth a prepared will / as actor and artisan, to draw the extension of being from non-being / as the extension of light that comes forth from the eye. And drawing from the source of light without a bucket / and acting on all without a tool, and hewed and engraved / and purified and refined, and called to nothingness — and it burst open / and to being — and it became fixed / and to the world — and it was hammered" — R. Solomon ibn Gabirol / Keter Malkhut, and likewise: "And the human being? Is he too a creator of something from nothing?" — Berdyczewski / Writings, b, 21, and likewise: "There they built for themselves a city... so that it would not be impossible for them... to create something from nothing in their great wisdom" — Mendele Mocher Sforim / The Travels of Benjamin the Third, 10, 73, and likewise: "I said to her, in the language of allusion: Is the hand of the LORD shortened? Indeed, He, blessed be He, brings something into being from nothing" — Y. Burla / Kisufim, 81)

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