Creation, not a one-time event
Clarification: Everything I write is my opinion and not necessarily accurate. It is recommended to refer to the source (especially Tanya Shaar HaYhod and Amuna chapters 1, 2)
One of the foundations of Chabad teachings (and perhaps the most central of them) is the Baal Tanya’s concept of becoming, which essentially claims that creation is not a one-time event but must be renewed at every moment, and if for one moment God, blessed be He, were to cease to form the world and bring it out of absolute nothingness and nothingness into the being that is, then everything would be nullified and it would be as if they had never existed at all.
This means that according to Chabad, the claim that ‘He left the land’ is not only technically incorrect, but also fundamentally impossible (because if He left the land, there would be no land), and this of course implicates a private providence, such as ‘the leaf that falls from the tree is provided for,’ etc.,
And much of Chabad’s radicalism and totalitarianism comes from this point that ‘there is no other besides Him’ and there is no place here.
The rationale behind the method lies in the uniqueness of the act of creation, which is not at all similar to performing a physical action in the world, which is something that exists. Such as creating a tool from a lump of silver that after creation the goldsmith can walk around the market while the tool exists and stands, and no longer needs the goldsmith’s hands. Not so the creation of heaven and earth, which exists from nothing and is not just a revelation of potential that already existed in the lump of silver, but a true renewal of something, and in such a case it is not enough to just be the trigger for change but must always constitute the change. This is very briefly and must be extended.
I think this method does everything, what do you think?
Do you know of such a method from other philosophers?
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