The difference between the first and the last in Rambam
The Rabbi says in the second book of the trilogy that the first four principles in the Rambam are not similar to the last four principles because the first (Metzoi, Non-Gof, One, Kadmon) are meaningless.
I don’t really understand what the difference is between the former and the latter, and why the former are meaningless. After all, both the former and the latter deal with facts about God (His essence or His leadership).
Did I write that all of the first four are meaningless? I don’t remember. Maybe I wrote that dealing with them is in most cases meaningless. Indeed, I see no point in dealing with most of them. The fact that it exists is not meaningless. I have also dealt with its existence quite a bit. This is of course not a principle in Jewish thought, but in philosophy. Therefore, the tools are also drawn from there. The fact that it is one is really not well defined. The fact that it is not a body sounds reasonable, but I don’t see why there is any need to deal with that either.
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