[Avodah] If I knew Him....

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:33:08 -0500
Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> T613K at aol.com wrote:

> > I have heard it as "Ilu yadativ, hayisiv" -- "if I knew Him, I would be 
> > Him."  Is that correct, and where does it come from?
> 
> This page <http://www.kipa.co.il/bikorim/show_art.asp?id=33582> sources
> it to Sefer Ha'ikarim, maamar 2, chapter 30.

It is indeed there, at the very end of the chapter, available (in djvu
format) here:

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/books/djvu/1179962/index.djvu

[p. 38]

> I've heard it sourced to the Rambam, but not to any specific place, so
> this seems more plausible.

R. Y. Albo attributes it to "the wise man", so it's apparently not from
Rambam, or he'd know that and say so.

Yitzhak
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