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Rabbi Yihyah Gafekh on the idolatrous beleifs of the Qabalah.
Sefardic Panther:
Hakam Azriel of Gerona was no idolator!!!
You misunderstand completely!!! He did say that Hashem is infinite, but to be totally perfect Hashem must ALSO HAVE finite manifestation.
The Atiq Yomim (Ancient Of Days) discussed in the Zohar is also mentioned in Daniel ch.7. Is this a reference to idolatry? Lo!!!
q_q_:
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on December 15, 2008, 10:36:40 AM ---Hakam Azriel of Gerona was no idolator!!!
You misunderstand completely!!! He did say that Hashem is infinite, but to be totally perfect Hashem must ALSO HAVE finite manifestation.
--- End quote ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azriel_(Jewish_mystic)
Azriel of Gerona
"He is the teacher of the most important figure from the kabbalist community of Girona, Nahmanides."
"Azriel was the most important student of the mystic Isaac the Blind. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_the_Blind
"He believed that....Individual beings in the world are material manifestation of the sefirot, albeit on a lower level of reality."
Given that.
I guess it's similar in that sense to what I know of the misnaged tzim tzum idea. Also held by the Vilna Gaon .
(so you could say that somebody that accepts that it is idolatry, has to accept that the RAMBAN and the VG were idolators)
The guy I mentioned would say that it's idolatry if you worship the physical world. But you don't worship it.
--- Quote from: Sefardic Panther on December 15, 2008, 10:36:40 AM ---The Atiq Yomim (Ancient Of Days) discussed in the Zohar is also mentioned in Daniel ch.7. Is this a reference to idolatry? Lo!!!
--- End quote ---
it's a name for G-d there I guess..
this is what I was saying about its use in the Zohar. That the tenach also talks as if Elokim does this, and YKayVKay does that, but we know from elsewhere in tenach that there is only one G-d. (also though in tenach sometimes 2 words are used in one sentence like ykayvkay and elokim )
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