[Avodah] Just one Hashem in Heaven

Zvi Lampel zvilampel at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 10:13:18 PST 2010


Milchamos Hashem, Rabbeynu Avraham ben HaRambam (Wars of the L-rd, 
translated by Dr. Fred Rosner) pp. 80-82, 129:

Our forefathers tells us, and the books and compositions authored in 
exile inform us, and the oral traditions from city to city and from 
country to country testify for us about all the Sages of Israel, East 
and West, about the heads of the talmudic academies in Babylon such as 
Rebbenu Saadia Gaon and Rabbenu Hau Gaon and Rabbi Samuel ben Chofni, 
may their memory be blessed; about the other academy heads and Sages of 
all Arabia, Syria and Egypt; about the Sages such as Rabbenu Nissim, 
author of Mehilat Setarim,, and Rabbenu Chananel who wrote a comentary 
on most of the Talmud; about Rabbi Isaac [Alfasi], author of Halachot 
Gedolot; about his disciple Rabbi Joseph known as Ibn Migash; about 
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra who wrote a commentary on the Torah and other 
scriptural texts; and about many others whose names are known by virtue 
of their written works and others who are mentioned because of beautiful 
verbal or oral teachings.

All these Sages, of blessed memory, were scholars of the Mishnah, 
Talmud, Midrash and Aggadah....[and] strengthened the faith which they 
inherited from their ancestors, and made them understand...the basic 
principles of their faith...[that] G-d is not corporeal...nor does He 
occupy a place....There is nothing that contains Him.....

All the scriptural phrases such as "He that sitteth in the heavens" 
(Psalm 2:4)...are allegories about the loftiness of His eminence and the 
loftiness of his truth [or: reality--ZL]...which is higher than the 
eminence of the heavens and their hosts and the angels.

Zvi Lampel



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