Reduction is not as simple as that.
Hello Rabbi,
I was recently exposed to the site for all your lessons and articles – and may God bless you for everything!
I saw in several places, including in the first lessons of your series “God and the World,” that you greatly disdain the method of reduction, not as simple as that.
Without going into the matter that I don’t understand, there is a point that you also repeat (of course from ancient sources) regarding the big question – if reduction is not as simple as that, then God is also present in the services.
As I understand it in Chabad teachings, the question doesn’t even begin –
Because within the question/confusion lies the assumption that God is generally “holy” and therefore it is not appropriate for Him to be in the services. But to someone who reads a little Chabad Torah and in general, it is clear that the entire definition of holy and so on about God is only from the tenth of the Sefirot and below.
The Blessed One of the “sob” and certainly above that – has no connection to holiness or transfiguration, so what’s the problem with him being in the services like in the Holy of Holies? All the definitions of impurity and purity, holy and impure, black and white, are only in “filla”.
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Without going into the question itself, what is meant by the non-literal reduction (and by the way, in Hasidism there is some evidence that the world is indeed real, one of them is from the verse “Genesis created God”..) –
I want to understand what is so complicated about saying/understanding that God has several tests, and one of them is before He even defined the rules of the game and the Sefirot in general, and in terms of this “degree” after all, up and down are equal and darkness is like light and certainly there are no boundaries of impurity and purity, and in any case, in simple reason it is understood that from this “degree” side, He is in the entrances of the foolish just as He is in the Holy of Holies!? And what is the great outcry of the opponents of Hasidic teachings about this? Unless we limit God so much and assume that by His very nature He is "holy" and therefore cannot be found in these places.
Correction:
Not “found in the filthy entrances” but “there is no religious/intellectual problem that it would be found in the filthy entrances”.
That is, – I am not asking whether it is or not, but what is the great anxiety of the opponents of Hasidism against this approach.
That's worth asking them. I explained that the problem I see in this is different. It's a logical problem, not a theological one.
Of course, reduction is not as simple as that.
Of course, you don't exist.
There is no contradiction here, just a bit of emotional difficulty and a perceptual limitation in recognizing that you don't exist.
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