{"id":640,"date":"2016-06-24T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=640"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:16","slug":"appendix-z45-new-interpretations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z45: New Interpretations***"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z45:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
New Interpr<\/span>etations<\/div>\n
***<\/div>\n
\u201cI end with a fascinating comment by the
\n nineteenth-\n <\/div>\n
century Jewish mystic Rabbi Zadok haCohen of
\n Lublin\n <\/div>\n
(1823-1900).<\/div>\n
\u2018Every day there ar<\/span>e new
\n interpretations of T<\/span>orah,\n <\/div>\n
because every day<\/span>,
\n continually<\/span>, God renews the work\n <\/div>\n
of creation.\u2019 Since the world was cr<\/span>eated according to\n <\/div>\n
the T<\/span>orah…pr<\/span>esumably<\/span>, the renewal of the world comes\n <\/div>\n
about through new aspects of T<\/span>orah. That is why after the\n <\/div>\n
blessing [in the morning prayers] \u2018creator of the
\n heavenly\n <\/div>\n
lights\u2019 which speaks about the daily renewal of
\n cr<\/span>eation,\n <\/div>\n
the sages instituted a second blessing which is a
\n form\n <\/div>\n
of blessing over the T<\/span>orah…in
\n which we ask to know the\n <\/div>\n
new interpretations of T<\/span>orah
\n which come about through\n <\/div>\n
the new aspects of creation….\u2019<\/div>\n
Rabbi Zadock haCohen, Tzidkat ha-Tzaddik, 92<\/div>\n
(c. 1870)<\/div>\n
According to Rabbi Zadok, since the God of cr<\/span>eation\n <\/div>\n
is the God of revelation, and since the T<\/span>orah is itself a\n <\/div>\n
commentary on the natural world, every new
\n scienti\ue0c4c\n <\/div>\n
discovery generates new religious insight. By daily
\n r<\/span>enewing\n <\/div>\n
creation, God is daily r<\/span>enewing,
\n our insight into his creative\n <\/div>\n
will.\u201d<\/div>\n
*** <\/span>Jonathan <\/span>Sacks, The <\/span>Great <\/span>Partnership, <\/span>New <\/span>Y<\/span>ork: <\/span>Random <\/span>House, Inc. <\/span>2011, pp.111-112<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z45: New Interpretations *** \u201cI end with a fascinating comment by the nineteenth- century Jewish mystic Rabbi Zadok haCohen of Lublin (1823-1900). \u2018Every day there are new interpretations of Torah, because every day, continually, God renews the work of creation.\u2019 Since the world was created according to the Torah…presumably, the renewal of the world […]<\/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\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}