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<![endif]--> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 20:09, David Riceman <a href="mailto:driceman@optimum.net"><driceman@optimum.net></a> wrote:
I happened accross a curious Ramban recently (Parshas Shlah...: so that maybe they would remember and return to God (ulay yizkru v'yashuvu el hashem)." RMB:...<I'm saying that "ulai" introduces one hypothetical outcome (from ilu lo, lulei, ulam), and needn't be that we are entertaining hypotheticals due to doubt. And when the Rambam earlier called HQBH the "Yodeia' asidos", he was ascribing to HQBH knowledge of the future with no exceptions.>
I take "ulai" as an expression of "to give them the opportunity" (based upon my impression--that I'd have to go back and confirm--of the Ramban's shittos that as you say, by "Yodeia' asidos", he was ascribing to HQBH knowledge of the future with no exceptions. Ulai we are saying the same thing?
ZL
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