Questions for today:
We explained how a world can be existent and finite, while at the same very time, From the Creator’s perspective the division bringing about reality are immaterial. Now we can answer a fundamental, yet challenging verse. How can G-d say, “Ani HaShsem Lo Shanisi”, “I am G-d I have not changed”? Even if G-d is just watching what we do, wouldn’t that experience constitute a ‘change’?
We used the example of litigants and a judge to show that from one perspective, details could be relevant and very important, while to the other perspective, only the inherent law matters.
Let's think about that theologically. Maimonides says that the Creator and the Creator’s knowledge are one.
Human intellect can't grasp that. We are a conglomerate; information we get is added to us. We view past, present and future as very different from each other.
In contrast, the Creator is a completely single entity, so none of those details change anything for Him. The Creator’s knowledge doesn't change from a future prophecy, to the present awareness, or to a past memory.
This is what the Torah means when it says, “Ani Hashem, Lo Shanisi,” that G-d doesn't change. Even though the human mind can’t understand this, we can still know it to be real.
We can liken this knowledge to that of a flying airplane. Even if I don't understand the details of aerodynamics to answer the hows and whys, I could still see clearly that the flying airplane is the reality.
181 19 Tanya Sivan 22 ~ m206 m19 Sivan 21
Tanya book 2, Ch 7, Pt 4
After explaining how from one perspective details could be very real, yet from another, non existent, we explain a foundation of Jewish Theology:
The Creator, and the Creator's knowledge, are one.
Since the Creator "sees" everything with a "self awareness", the creator doesn't change - even changing tense, from future to past awareness.
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