Ramchal Reception
The Rabbi’s opinion is very important to me. I tried to settle it but I don’t really know.
If I understand correctly, it seems that the Ramchal method of matter is a distinct, existential reality with degrees, stages, that exists in an elevated manner to materiality and then returns to spirituality later on. . And what Kabbalah speaks of is what the law of that distinction is. The same law that God Almighty practices this created distinction throughout its history from the perspective of the soul’s observation of this history and the interpretation of the governing law on this distinct material.
The lawfulness of what matter was conducted at the level of worlds of knots, worlds of dots, a world of nobility, creation, and doing. All of which are truly one but a different layer of the same reality. More fundamental and less so. And every other layer of the differentiating matter conducts itself in a different legal conduct that precedes its choice in causality.
And it seems to me that this works best because Baal Hashem’s method seemingly makes it difficult for God, since if infinity is created, then in prayer we pray to another, God forbid, and not to God, but to infinity and its changes. And if the instruments of Atzilut are created, distinct, then we pray to them, God forbid.
And if everything is God, then God forbid there is a change in God that something separates.
And if this is the Ramchal method, which is just our interpretation of Hashem’s leadership, then it doesn’t work out on a figurative level and also makes it difficult to understand why Hashem acted this way if it has no real meaning. Also, what is the figurative meaning of “Behind the father they went before the mother” in terms of our perception of leadership? And so I thought about the method in this way.
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