I rarely have a chance to write so just a quick question --Can God create something that is not God?
I would say of course. That is the whole point of the Torah as Saadia Gaon and the Rambam make clear. So to me it seems the signature of the Gra on letter of excommunication was justified even if it had been about this one point. All the more so that time has shown the Gra to be 100% correct anyway.
For that reason it makes sense to avoid the religious world which ignores the Gra. Because they ignore the Gra they have been basically taken over by the Sitra Achra.
[Rav Nahman I consider to be a separate issue and in fact he noted the exact same problems that the Gra was referring to. You can see hints of his in all his books but even more openly in the "השמטות"[left out parts] of Rav Shmuel Horwitz that was published by the Na Nach group. [I mean that he found original early editions of the חיי מוהר''ן that contained Rav Nahman's views that later people decided were not politically correct.]
Since the religious world nowadays is insane the best thing to do is to learn Torah at home.[The main point of the religious world is to make a show of their religiosity in order to get money from secular Jews as the Obligations of the Heart חובות לבבות points out
[In any case the fact of Creation Ex Nihilo is stated openly in all books of the Rishonim. But why argue with the Sitra Achra [dark side]anyway? Those that know the truth, already know.]
I would say of course. That is the whole point of the Torah as Saadia Gaon and the Rambam make clear. So to me it seems the signature of the Gra on letter of excommunication was justified even if it had been about this one point. All the more so that time has shown the Gra to be 100% correct anyway.
For that reason it makes sense to avoid the religious world which ignores the Gra. Because they ignore the Gra they have been basically taken over by the Sitra Achra.
[Rav Nahman I consider to be a separate issue and in fact he noted the exact same problems that the Gra was referring to. You can see hints of his in all his books but even more openly in the "השמטות"[left out parts] of Rav Shmuel Horwitz that was published by the Na Nach group. [I mean that he found original early editions of the חיי מוהר''ן that contained Rav Nahman's views that later people decided were not politically correct.]
Since the religious world nowadays is insane the best thing to do is to learn Torah at home.[The main point of the religious world is to make a show of their religiosity in order to get money from secular Jews as the Obligations of the Heart חובות לבבות points out
[In any case the fact of Creation Ex Nihilo is stated openly in all books of the Rishonim. But why argue with the Sitra Achra [dark side]anyway? Those that know the truth, already know.]
