From one does not come many.
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There is a philosophical question that the Maharal brings up in Chapter 3 of Netzach Yisrael that from one there is no plurality, and as a result, it cannot be claimed that God created the world because the Creator is one and the world is plurality. Can the Rabbi explain this question? What is meant by the fact that God is one, and where is the assumption derived that something that is one cannot have plurality? And what does it mean that plurality comes from one?
This can be formulated in several ways. It could be the second law of thermodynamics (increasing complexity and order does not occur in a natural process). But it seems more philosophical: if there is a simple point without structure, how can something complex come out of it? The assumption is that in creating a complex work, the creator must have something of it (his idea). Therefore, the complexity of the work must be in the creator. But these are all really principles that require a better definition, and I suspect that after the definition, not much of the difficulty will remain.
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