[Avodah] Apikores?

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:20:21 -0500
"Moshe Y. Gluck" <mgluck at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> Why will it happen anyway? Who said that there would be gravity without the
> RBSO decreeing that it be there every second? It seems pretty clear L'chol

Actually, the Rambam says exactly that (Sh'moneh P'rakim Ch. 8):

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And in this way can we say about a man when he stands and sits that he
has stood and sat by the will of God, i.e. that his nature has been
established at its creation that he shall stand and sit by his choice,
not that He desires now at the time of his standing that he shall stand
or that he shall not stand, just as He does not now desire, at the
occurrence of the falling of a particular stone, that it should fall or
not fall ...

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> Hadei'os (that I'm aware of) that if the RBSO would stop actively being
> Mechayeh the world every instant it would be Chozer L'Tohu Va'vohu. The laws
> of physics are part of the world, and so are you and I. Tomer Devorah
> (1:1-2) puts it well (for another kabbalistic POV supporting Hashgachah
> Pratis) when he says that the RBSO actively keeps a person alive even though
> he had aveiros, when Shuras Hadin would require that Hashem remove his
> support for the actions against him.   

You say Le'chol Ha'dei'os, but I only know of Kabbalistic
sources who maintain this; I don't believe that the (medieval)
rationalists accepted any such thing.

> KT,
> MYG

Yitzhak
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