{"id":262,"date":"2016-06-24T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=262"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:40:07","slug":"appendix-f2-the-suffused-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX F2: The Suffused Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX F2:<\/div>\n
The Suffused Divine<\/div>\n
Rav Chaim of V<\/span>olozhin*\n <\/div>\n
a<\/div>\n
(b.1749, V<\/span>olozhin,
\n Belarus;\n <\/div>\n
d. 1821, V<\/span>olozhin,
\n Belarus) elucidates Hashem<\/span> (the Divine)\n <\/div>\n
as \ue0c4lling \u2013 and surrounding \u2013 all worlds.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt says in many places in the Zohar that \u2018Hashem\n <\/div>\n
\ue0c4lls all worlds\u2019 and \u2018surrounds all worlds.\u2019 This\n <\/div>\n
means that from Hashem\u2019<\/span>s
\n perspective, He \ue0c4lls all\n <\/div>\n
worlds, and we, from our T<\/span>orah-oriented vantage\n <\/div>\n
point, see Hashem as surrounding all worlds.<\/div>\n
The meaning of the concept of \u2018Hashem \ue0c4lling all\n <\/div>\n
worlds\u2019 is concealed from us.<\/div>\n
The truth is that from Hashem\u2019<\/span>s perspective, even\n <\/div>\n
after creating the world, He \ue0c4lls all the worlds
\n and\n <\/div>\n
all existence; literally<\/span>,
\n \u2018There is nothing else beside <\/span><\/div>\n
Him\u2019 (Devarim 4:35).\u201d<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
Meaning, as per Summa, the Divine is not \u201cover
\n there\u201d\n <\/div>\n
and we are \u201cover her<\/span>e\u201d;
\n Rather<\/span>, the Divine suffuses all.\n <\/div>\n
And, parallel to our metaphysics, wherein Quest
\n for\n <\/div>\n
Potential<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
is the core of the Divine, and the Divine drives\n <\/div>\n
the cosmos….<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
*a<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Rav Chaim of V<\/span>olozhin,
\n Nefesh Hachaim<\/span>, The Judaica Press, Inc. Brooklyn, NY<\/span>,\n <\/div>\n
\u00a9 2009, p. 112<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX F2: The Suffused Divine Rav Chaim of Volozhin* a (b.1749, Volozhin, Belarus; d. 1821, Volozhin, Belarus) elucidates Hashem (the Divine) as \ue0c4lling \u2013 and surrounding \u2013 all worlds. \u201cIt says in many places in the Zohar that \u2018Hashem \ue0c4lls all worlds\u2019 and \u2018surrounds all worlds.\u2019 This means that from Hashem\u2019s perspective, He \ue0c4lls all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}