{"id":1259,"date":"2012-06-28T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2012-06-28T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:30:03","slug":"an-argument-we-seem-not-to-be-a-party-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2012\/06\/28\/an-argument-we-seem-not-to-be-a-party-to\/","title":{"rendered":"An argument we seem not to be a party to"},"content":{"rendered":"

And finally, our discussion of Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaVichuach <\/em>also helps us to understand another puzzle about Klach<\/em> — why it\u2019s very first Petach<\/em> begins with the statement that \u201cThe Infinite One\u2019s Yichud<\/em>\u201d <\/strong>implies that — only His will functions<\/strong> fully and that no other will functions other than through it\u2026.<\/strong>, as if we were wondering what God\u2019s Yichud<\/em>, His supreme sovereignty, means. But, who raised the issue in the first place, and what does it have to do with the Kabbalistic system? The issue in fact carries a lot of weight, as we\u2019ve seen and will continue to, but we\u2019re still baffled by the idea that the book seems to start in the middle of an argument that we readers seem not to a party to.<\/p>\n

The mystery is only solved when one reads Klach<\/em> in the context of Ma\u2019amar<\/em> HaVichuach<\/em>. For the latter contains the following statement made by the Kabbalist there: \u201cthe fundamental axiom of this science (i.e., Kabbalah) is God\u2019s Yichud<\/em> — (i.e., in the belief in the fact) that He is one in all senses of the term\u201d (p. 45); in the statement that \u201cGod is the Lord in the heavens above and on the earth below, there is no other\u201d such being whose reign is that thorough (Deuteronomy 4:39); and in the idea that \u201cHe oversees and governs absolutely everything celestial and mundane\u201d (pp. 77-79), all of which implies that God\u2019s reign is supreme and exclusive. Thus, the idea of God\u2019s Yichud is central to Kabbalah in Ramchal\u2019s understanding as well as to Klach Pitchei Chochma<\/em>, which only becomes clear when Klach<\/em> is seen in context.<\/p>\n

(c) 2012 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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And finally, our discussion of Ma\u2019amar HaVichuach also helps us to understand another puzzle about Klach — why it\u2019s very first Petach begins with the statement that \u201cThe Infinite One\u2019s Yichud\u201d implies that — only His will functions fully and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}