dira betachtonim
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n. "Dwelling in the lower realms"--a theological argument for why God created the world (because He longed for an abode below in addition to one up high).
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דירה בתחתונים dirah batachtonim 'dwelling in the lower realms' (from Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 16)
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