{"id":1924,"date":"2014-09-02T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2014-09-02T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:11:11","slug":"nothing-but-nothing-is-ever-forgotten-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2014\/09\/02\/nothing-but-nothing-is-ever-forgotten-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing but nothing is ever forgotten (4) \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s back up a bit and consider something that Ramchal offers in his own comments to our Petach<\/em>. He cites the Trace and the Line spoken of at length above [1]. Let\u2019s examine that in light of what we learned above, in Petach<\/em> 78.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re told above in Petach<\/em> 27 that everything that was to exist <\/strong>in the world has its roots in the <\/strong>Trace, which is a shadow of God\u2019s presence [2]. <\/strong>That is, God has left a trace of His being in the world when He (apparently) left it, with the onset of the Tzimtzum<\/em> process, and everything here is rooted in that trace of His being.<\/p>\n

Petach<\/em> 37 above goes on to say that the<\/strong> interaction on God\u2019s part with the Trace is termed<\/strong> His having extended a single \u201cline\u201d<\/strong> \u2026 into the \u201cemptiness\u201d <\/strong>brought on by the Tzimtzum<\/em>. <\/strong>That is, the Line represents God\u2019s re-entering the empty space created by the Tzimtzum<\/em> and His interacting with the world at large.<\/p>\n

That having been said we see that Petach<\/em> 78\u2019s statement that each deed\u2019s outcome continues to exist even when the deed <\/strong>itself is gone <\/strong>suddenly has a whole other import. <\/strong>And the idea there that when a flaw has been repaired, the trace<\/em> <\/strong>(!) of the <\/strong>original flaw doesn\u2019t disappear<\/strong>, etc. now implies this. A trace of the past always remains behind everything we do, to be sure, but we\u2019re to know that given that that trace itself interacts with God\u2019s being, it\u2019s thus never overlooked or considered worthless. And so rather than seeming to be a nefarious remark to the effect that there\u2019s no hope and that nothing but nothing is ever forgotten, the truth is that everything is indeed remembered and remains — that\u2019s because everything matters in God\u2019s interactions with the universe.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] See Section 6 above.<\/p>\n

[2] Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em> 48.<\/p>\n

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(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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