[Avodah] "God who knows the future"
Lampel
zvilampel at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 13:46:31 PDT 2011
RMB:
<<In RCC's edition, the sentence that runs across Iyov pp 17-18 and the
one on Qoheles pg 195 line 5 both explicitly refer to Hashem's knowledge
of the future as part of His Knowledge of every perat.>>
RCC:
<I found the reference in Iyov (the first word on p. 18 is he'asid) but I
didn't see the relevance of the passage in Koheles.>
It's p. 194, not 195, lines 1-5.
Translation/transliteration:
"And this kefirah...that the Creator does not know the peratim...how would he know the peratim...v'yeish deah b'Elyon b'assidos...if he knows the present and future why yotzi mishpat m'u'kal b'shalom ha-r'sha'im v'yisurei ha-tsadikim."
<The subject of the passage in Iyov is whether God knows particulars, which need not be
related to whether God knows the future...>
As you wrote, the first word on p. 18 is he'asid. Translation of entire sentence is:
"But we need to know that the Almi-ty knows the individuals--all of them and their peratim--those above and those below, their deeds and their thoughts, the past and the present and the future."
And on p. 20:
"And returning to the daas of the koferim hagemurim, who deny [Hashem's] knowledge, and say" [continue to 4 lines from the page's bottom]... "how would Hashem know the future (asidos)...for if He would know the future he would not have created these [who turn out to be] reshaim..."
Zvi Lampel
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