{"id":2129,"date":"2015-08-26T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T14:54:28","slug":"erich-anpin-and-its-counterpart-zeir-anpin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2015\/08\/26\/erich-anpin-and-its-counterpart-zeir-anpin-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Erich Anpin and its counterpart Zeir Anpin (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s more to be said about the relationship of Erich<\/em> Anpin<\/em> and Zeir<\/em> Anpin<\/em>, and that will the gist of Petach<\/em> 93.<\/p>\n

The very fact that judgment emerges <\/strong>for the meanwhile for the sake of utter benevolence alone <\/strong>actually mitigates judgment. <\/strong>That’s to say that judgment achieves a sort of merit for living up to its role which is its mitigation (i.e., its being “sweetened” as its termed in the original).<\/p>\n

Judgment — which is to say the system of reward and punishment and the like — is given sway for the meanwhile, to be sure, but again the point is that benevolence — which is not<\/em> merit-based — will reign in the end. For a king’s ultimate<\/strong> goal is to be benevolent<\/strong>, even when that’s not always evident. <\/strong>Understand that God could very well have allowed the universe to function through rank judgment alone ad<\/em> infinitum<\/em>, but He didn’t want to, as Ramchal underscores in his comments.<\/p>\n

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(c) 2015 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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