{"id":25,"date":"2015-07-13T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godandtrust.wordpress.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-07-13T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:49:16","slug":"god-unto-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/trust\/2015\/07\/13\/god-unto-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"God Unto Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

We see allusions to the fact of God’s utterly unfathomable and transcendent nature early on in Chovot<\/em> HaLevovot<\/em>. In Chapter 2:6 Ibn Pakudah alerts us to the fact that<\/p>\n

Whatever you know about the Creator’s wisdom and abilities in this world is absolutely nothing compared to His actual wisdom and abilities. For we only see the things we need to know for our own well-being, not everything that His infinite abilities are capable of bringing about.<\/p>\n

He’s clearly alluding to the more arcane understanding of God we’ve been referring to. So let’s finally see what others say about God’s esoteric side.<\/p>\n

The Leshem<\/em> depicts God in Klallim<\/em> (Introduction, Para. 11) as the \u201coil\u201d to the \u201cwick\u201d that is the universe — that’s to say that He’s everything’s essential background, fuel, and energy-source.<\/p>\n

And we’re taught that \u201cGod is the dwelling-place<\/em> of His world, while God\u2019s world is not His<\/em> dwelling-place\u201d (Breishit<\/em> Rabbah<\/em> 68:9). That means to say that God is the “backdrop” of everything. — “the ground of being” as the theologian Paul Tillich depicted — the dwelling-place, home, root source of the world.<\/p>\n

But He’s more than that: He’s the one who had the original idea of<\/em> and then actually created<\/em> that “dwelling-place’s”, “ground’s” and “backdrop’s” manifest world; He’s its source, its impetus, its sustainer, and its own “ground” — the ineffable root of all roots, seed of all seeds, soul of each soul.<\/p>\n

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

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

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You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here<\/a> at a discount as well.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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