[Avodah] Ramchal: Hashem not bound by logic? (Was: Re: Rav Sharki on university )

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Mon May 9 10:37:04 PDT 2016


On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 05:41:13PM -0400, H Lampel via Avodah wrote:
: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 From: Micha Berger
:> The Ramchal says that logic is a nivra, and therefore Hashem can 
:> indeed create round squares and other self-contrdictory things.
: 
: I assume the reference is to Kelach Pischei Chohma 30...
: where Ramchal says Hashem is not bound by logic? I've been told that in 
: fact it implies the opposite

Then why would you think tht was the reference? Pesach 30 is where he
discusses zeh le'umas zeh, so mybe they're talking about the implied
lack of a law of contradiction? (Ie that creation comes in paradoxical
pairs.)

YOu are asking for a source for something I have been repeating since
before its appearance in Avodah vol 1, something I learne from R' Aryeh
Kaplan. Sources, even my notebook from those days, are not at hand. But I'm
working on it -- al titya'esh.

Actually, I am on the hunt for where I saw the point in seifer haHigayon.
The Ramchal defined higayon as a tool the seikhel was given. I am just
looking for where I found it explicit that logic was created for people.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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