{"id":655,"date":"2011-05-19T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:25:07","slug":"a-couple-of-quick-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2011\/05\/19\/a-couple-of-quick-diversions\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of quick diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forgot to cite the only time that Ramchal goes \u201coff-message\u201d in this section to address an extraneous point. He says at the beginning of his commentary to Petach<\/em> 18 that \u201cthe whole purpose of the science of Kabbalah is to understand the specific root of each phenomenon\u201d. That\u2019s to say that thanks to Kabbalah we\u2019re able to trace everything back to God\u2019s own input, step by step, and that the Hebrew letters factor into all of that, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to point out that R\u2019 Yehudah HaLevi discussed the Hebrew letters in his well known Kuzari<\/em> (see 4:25 especially) in the context of his analysis of Sefer<\/em> Yetzirah<\/em>, which we\u2019ll focus upon below. His analysis is interesting in that he draws upon early Kabbalistic as well as non-Kabbalistic philosophical works.<\/p>\n

(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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I forgot to cite the only time that Ramchal goes \u201coff-message\u201d in this section to address an extraneous point. He says at the beginning of his commentary to Petach 18 that \u201cthe whole purpose of the science of Kabbalah is … 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-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}