{"id":115,"date":"2006-10-05T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/ge\/90010-contraction-of-divine-consciousness\/90012-grounding\/90012b-divine-self-limitation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:11:04","slug":"90012b-divine-self-limitation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/ge\/90010-contraction-of-divine-consciousness\/90012-grounding\/90012b-divine-self-limitation\/","title":{"rendered":"900.12b Divine Self-Limitation (pps.126-127)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The broader concept of Divine Self-limitation and subsequent emergence also has ample evidence in Masorah<\/em><\/p>\n

For behold, the Lord cometh forth out of His place.
\n-Isaiah 27:2<\/p>\n

The Lord is exalted,
\nfor He dwelleth on high.
\n-Isaiah 33:4<\/p>\n

I will hold me still,
\nand I will look on in My dwelling-place.
\n-Isaiah 18:5<\/p>\n

Seek ye the Lord while He may be found,
\nCall ye upon Him while He is near.
\n-Isaiah 55:6<\/p>\n

He is God in His holy place.
\n-Psalms 68:5-6<\/p>\n

Oh that I knew where I might find Him!
\nThat I might come even to His seat!
\n-Job 23:3<\/p>\n

He dwells in the highest mystery,
\nHe rests in the shadow of Shadai.
\n-Psalms 91:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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God’s involvement with the realm of finite reality is imaginable only as an act of divine “self-limitation.” . . . He “reduces” Himself so that He may enter into the narrow straits of a relationship with finite existence.
\n-Berkovits503<\/sup><\/p>\n

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503 <\/sup>Berkovits. God, Man and History,<\/em> p. 64.
\nCf. Berkovits, Faith after the Holocaust,<\/em> p. 65. “The El Mistater, in his very hiding, is Savior. . . . what we make of his absence will ultimately determine the quality of our Judaism for generations to come.”
\nCf. ibid., p. 172. “Cox does argue that ‘the Biblical God’s hiddenness stands at the very center of the doctrine of God’\u00e2\u20ac\u201dCox p. 258.”
\nCf. Berkovils, Major Themes in Modern Philosophies of Judaism,<\/em> p. 2 18. ” . . talmudic and midrashic tradition does speak of the Galut ha’Sfiekkinah<\/em> (cf. T.B. Tractate Megillah. 29a), the exile of the Shekkinah.”<\/p>\n

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