[Avodah] ain Od Milvado v. Bechira

[Zev Sero]

On 29/04/2011 2:05 PM, Hankman wrote:
> Another thought occurred to me. I always scoff when I hear the Xtian notion of the trinity with a man as part of the divine - couldn't be! Yet lehavdil tsimtsum (with this understanding of it) seems to do what they do but in spades, everybody is a chelek Eloka mima'al which of course I find very troubling, now that the thought occurred to me. (Don't all flame me at once).

Not the same thing at all; they claim that there is a division *within*
HKBH, and that Y is one of those parts, and in fact the part to which
prayer should be directed.   That's very different from saying that the
"nefesh hasheinis beyisroel" is a "chelek Eloak Mimaal mamash".  It's
actually the exact opposite.

*If* one looks at a person and sees only the Atzmus that's in him, then
one may indeed address him as Hashem and worship him, as we find many
examples of in Tanach and Chazal.  But what they do is the opposite:
they look Above and see the person, and worship *him*!  And that's AZ.

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