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6.7.21

 Rav Avraham Abulafia is unknown to most people.  partly because he is considered a "mekubal" the last thing he would have liked to be known as. He wrote--the Christians believe in three gods and the mekubalim in ten. And until today you can see he was right. I was in the Breslov place today and learned LeM 33 and tried to explain that God is beyond time and space since these two are His creations. One can not say God is here nor that he is absent from here since neither predicate are applicable to Him.  Most people that learn the Lem of Rav Nahman seem to think that pantheism is correct, but in spite of this being not the Torah approach it is also incorrect from the aspect that has no plurality in Him. If everything is God and everything is a plurality then one introduces a plurality into Divine simplicity--that God is not a composite. he has no predicates. Not time nor space. nor any sort of ingredients.



[Just to be clear--God has no characteristics that can be applicable to finite beings--as Saddia gaon makes clear.