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To: malakhi

Rather, of God permitting us to exercise our will.

God retracts in order to give us a dominion in which to exercise. Like China's enterprise zones.

2,716 posted on 04/08/2004 12:59:58 PM PDT by SoothingDave

To: SoothingDave

God retracts in order to give us a dominion in which to exercise.

Yes. In Jewish mystical thought, the term for this is Tzimtzum.

2,717 posted on 04/08/2004 1:02:57 PM PDT by malakhi (L'shana haba'ah b'Yerushalayim!)

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