Q&A: The Holy One, Blessed Be He, and the World
The Holy One, Blessed Be He, and the World
Question
Hello dear Rabbi,
My question is this: in your series of videos about the involvement of the Holy One, Blessed Be He, in the world, you compare the Holy One, Blessed Be He, and the world to two kinds of dimensions.
But a two-dimensional world has to be contained within a three-dimensional world (even though it does not take up volume), and from here it follows that the world must necessarily exist.
Does the Rabbi mean this as an analogy and illustration? That the world and the Holy One, Blessed Be He, are simply two different kinds of things?
I want to thank you with all my heart for the lessons and series offered to the general public. The series are so enlightening and logical!!
Especially the Rabbi’s series about the Holy One, Blessed Be He, and the world. I never understood how it could make sense that the Holy One, Blessed Be He, intervenes in everything, etc., even though so many people I know claim that. In short, thank you very much! More power to you.
Answer
What does it mean that the world must necessarily exist? I didn’t understand.
Two dimensions are not contained in three. It is a different and entirely separate reality. But this is indeed an analogy meant to illustrate.
Think of a world that is entirely a plane; it is not contained in three-dimensional space. But you can of course define a plane in three-dimensional space as follows:
(2,y,z)
[The wonders of mixed Hebrew-English printing. I can’t manage to write a vector in which the 2 appears on the left.]
That is already a plane embedded in three-dimensional space, but only because you added to it a fixed coordinate, X=2.
Thank you, I’m working on it. 🙂