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March 18, 2011 6:52 am at 6:52 am
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Derech HaMelech
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Wolf:
I’m pretty sure that no one has ever satisfactorily resolved the paradox of omniscience and free will.
Explain satisfactorily.
For one thing, the creation of a paradox should still be within means of an omnipotent being, do you not agree?
The Sifsei Chaim (I forgot who he based it on) explains that we can’t really ask that question to begin with. Hashem’s knowledge is not a separate part of Hashem but it is Hashem Himself. I have heard that prior to creating the world Hashem constricted His infiniteness (this itself is a paradox). I understand this to mean that He created “Paradox to Himself”. Which is us.