{"id":105,"date":"2008-12-28T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/extract-from-book-i-foreword\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:25:21","slug":"extract-from-book-i-foreword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/gg\/extract-from-book-i-foreword\/","title":{"rendered":"extract from Book I Foreword"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">extract from Drob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">FOREWORD<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">of God and Evil *<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>* Book I (1988) of Summa Metaphysica<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Birnbaum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed solution to the question of divine origins, to the mystery of the kabbalists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <em>En Sof<\/em> (the infinite theistic principle giving rise to the God of Israel) is that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holy Potential is at the epicenter of the Divine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that God is, by His very nature, <em>potential and possibility<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctranscending, space, time and cosmos,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and ever-surging towards greater actuality. Birnbaum bases his thesis, in part, on the name by which God first became known to Moses and Israel:<em> Eheye Asher Eheyeh,<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I-will-be-that-which-I-will be\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Exodus 3:13-14) which he sees as a prooftext for his claim that<em> potential<\/em> is the holiest state of the Divine. Birnbaum sees the kabbalists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<em> sefirot<\/em> as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153primal quests for potentiality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which bridge the gap from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153emptiness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153somethingness,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and thereby become the vehicles of creation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/50vert.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--COPY THIS ENTIRE CODE TO START TABLE--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"80%\" size=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<table width=\"314\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 125px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/in-tribute\/\">< BACK<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50px\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/gg\/introductory-essay\/\">NEXT PAGE><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--END OF TABLE--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>extract from Drob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s FOREWORD of God and Evil * * Book I (1988) of Summa Metaphysica \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Birnbaum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed solution to the question of divine origins, to the mystery of the kabbalists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 En Sof (the infinite theistic principle giving rise to the God of Israel) is that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holy Potential is at the epicenter of the Divine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.7 - 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