Question

Hello Rabbi Michi. For years I’ve been reading your thought with great interest, and it enriches me מאוד and really puts my mind at ease on the issues you deal with.
I’m familiar with your view that the Creator too is subject to the “laws” of logic. You say that these are not really laws, and it’s not that the Creator created them the way He created the laws of nature, to which He is not subject.
To the question whether the Creator can create a “round triangle,” you answer that the question has no meaning at all. There is no such thing as a round triangle—it is a conceptual contradiction—and therefore such a question cannot be answered with yes or no.
In the same way, you say that one should not take seriously the question whether God can turn Himself into a human being so that I could kill Him. For logically, God is something that is not a human being, and therefore He cannot turn Himself into such a thing.
My question is whether from the process of “tzimtzum” we do not see that God can do something that is not logical. For if I assume that God is infinite and without limit, then conceptually there cannot be anything limited relative to Him or outside Him. Faith presents the Holy One, blessed be He, as infinite—unlimited, perfect, and so on. On the other hand, we see our finite, constricted, deficient reality. The difficulty in understanding these two things together is that the infinite, by its very nature, leaves no room for anything external to it, and seemingly the very existence of reality is already a limitation on the Holy One, blessed be He, since reality is not the Holy One, blessed be He (as you argue if tzimtzum is understood literally).

And if there is a reality, then the Infinite made itself constricted, and that is a logical contradiction. If so, then we have here that God can do something logically contradictory. And perhaps indeed in our world He cannot create a round triangle because our world is limited, etc. But is it not possible that outside our world such a thing is made possible by Him?