Tohu v’Bohu: The Void Before Creation

Psychology Today | 23.01.2026 03:34
In the second line of the Hebrew Bible, before light, before land, before anything with a respectable shape, the world is described as tohu v’bohu. Depending on the translation, this primordial state is rendered as “formless and void,” “empty and waste,” “invisible and unformed,” or, more poetically, "chaos with a pulse."