{"id":629,"date":"2017-12-05T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/derechhashem\/?p=629"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:48:30","slug":"derech-hashem-2410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/derechhashem\/2017\/12\/05\/derech-hashem-2410\/","title":{"rendered":"Derech Hashem\u00a02:4:10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Derech<\/em> <em>Hashem<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; The Way of G-d 2:4:10<\/p>\n<p>And even though as a rule G-d doesn\u2019t directly govern them <sup>1<\/sup>, He might still do so for our sake. And that would fall under the rubric of means-to-an-end rather than ends themselves which we\u2019d discussed earlier <sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes:<\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><sup>1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>I.e., He has appointed angelic administrators over them as we saw in 2:4:8.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/sup>See 2:3:12 above and our note 7 there.<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2017 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:feldman@torah.org\">feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Feldman&#8217;s new annotated translation of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag\u2019s \u201cIntroduction to the Zohar\u201d is available as \u201cThe Kabbalah of Self\u201d on Kindle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kabbalah-Self-Translation-Yehudah-Introduction-ebook\/dp\/B01NAVBQ5C\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1485208265&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=Yaakov+Feldman\">here<\/a>. His annotated translation of Maimonides&#8217; &#8220;Eight Chapters&#8221; is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menuchapublishers.com\/the-8-chapters-of-the-rambam-shemonah-perakim-494.html\">here<\/a> and his annotated translation of Rabbeinu Yonah\u2019s &#8220;The Gates of Repentance&#8221; is available <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9780765760852\/The-Gates-of-Repentance\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has also translated and commented upon &#8220;The Path of the Just&#8221; and &#8220;The Duties of the Heart&#8221; (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes torah.org entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/series\/spiritual-excellence\/\">Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/torah.org\/series\/ramchal\/\">Ramchal<\/a>\u201d that can be subscribed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derech Hashem\u00a0&#8211; The Way of G-d 2:4:10 And even though as a rule G-d doesn\u2019t directly govern them 1, He might still do so for our sake. 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