Timeline for "God is Fire": Trying to Source an Analogy for Prayer
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 6:09 | answer | added | ray | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 1:03 | history | edited | Shimon bM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made clearer that I was referring to the Rav and not the Beis haLevi.
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| Jul 18, 2013 at 21:09 | comment | added | Menachem | I have heard this parable as well. It was explaining the idea that if we look at fire superficially, we can think it is a bunch of different things (cooks, burns, dries, softens, hardens, etc.). When we examine it on a deeper level, we realize that it is all one thing, the nature of fire. I can't remember where I heard this, but it might have been explaining the Sefirot. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 20:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/357959770071764992 | ||
| Jul 18, 2013 at 16:52 | comment | added | Vtr | Are you asking about the fire analogy in general or about its specific use in explaining prayer? The fire analogy being used to explain God's interaction with the world, is in Guide for the Perplexed 1:53. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 15:56 | answer | added | Yirmeyahu | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 15:36 | history | edited | msh210♦ |
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| Jul 18, 2013 at 14:18 | comment | added | WAF | Never heard it before, but I like it and would be very interested to see the source! | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 14:09 | comment | added | Daniel | Actually, reading over your post again, I think you're saying pretty much the same thing I am. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | Daniel | I'm not sure if I articulated that well. I also don't have a source, unfortunately :( | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | Daniel | That analogy is fimiliar, but I seem to recall it with a different "punchline." In my recollection, the point was to show how it is possible for God to interact with humans in all different ways ("anger", "mercy", etc.) even though he is unchanging. And the answer is that, like fire, our interactions with God affect us differently depending entirely on our own state. For example, if we sin, our interaction with God will have an anger-like effect. This is not because God has become angry, as God is unchanging. It is because our sins caused the interaction to have the form of anger. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 12:30 | history | asked | Shimon bM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |