[Avodah] Creation eternal heretical - hashkafa question
David Riceman
driceman at optimum.net
Thu May 13 06:34:17 PDT 2010
RCM:
<<Basic hashkafa dictates the fundamental reason for the creation and
existence of the universe is the desire by HKB"H to exercise his hatava
which requires a recipient.>>
This is the RaMChaL's opinion, but it is NOT the Rambam's. See MN III:25.
<<HKB"H is outside of zeman and He and his ratzon are never changing and
"eternal" [for lack of a better word - quotes because this word implies
time]. This requires that the existence of creation be always present
[to comply with His ratzon to be maitiv] and "eternal" despite parshas
Bereishis that seems to imply otherwise?>>
It seems to me that your second sentence is predicating time of God,
while your first sentence is ambiguous. But time is a property of the
world, not of God; and God's exercising of His hatavah takes place in
the world. It is not incorrect to predicate will of God, but it should
follow that it is incorrect to predicate time of God's will.
Perhaps if you try to rephrase your problem more precisely you will see
how to answer it.
David Riceman
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