A class on how God creates a finite world through self-contraction, exploring free choice, moral decision-making grounded in Torah, and a story about King Solomon and the angel of death.
Tonight's class explored the Tsim Tsum, how God's infinite nature creates a finite world, and connected it to human free choice. The Torah serves as the manual for making moral decisions, guiding us to channel our inclinations toward good.
The Tsim Tsum addresses how God in his infinity state can create a finite world. The answer is that God removed himself from a piece of the world in order to create it.
Good is sourced from morals in the Torah. It is not based on what anybody imagines, thinks, writes about, or anyone's intuition. It is evidence based by the Torah, which is described as the actual manual of the world.
The story shows that you cannot outsmart God or angels. They will do what they are supposed to do. All we can do is what God is asking of us.
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