Timeline for What is the need for angels?
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Baby Seal | @user6618 also this may not be clear, but Rav Lopiansky's core point was that without angels we wouldn't be able to understand the difference between wood and oxygen and fire and how they collaborate. So by virtue of the fact that science exists, we are reaping the benefits of the existence of angels. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | Baby Seal | @user6618 we do, either in verse or in Midrash. And you can't understand God, only how he interacts with us. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 2:53 | comment | added | user6618 | You're saying the purpose of angels is for us to have exposure to them (so we can understand G-d). So if that's their purpose, we should always get that exposure whenever they are performing an assigned task. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 2:29 | comment | added | Baby Seal | @user6618 no because understanding how creation works is non essential to keeping the mitzvot. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 0:18 | comment | added | user6618 | Isn't that more of an exception than a rule? Usually we don't see angels, and if the purpose of them was for us to have documented exposure to them, wouldn't we see them often? @babyseal | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Baby Seal | @user6618 Explicitly in-verse off the top of my head, Genesis, Numbers, Judges, Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel. Also a ton of Aggadic works illustrate the use of angels in a homiletic, metaphoric sense, to help us understand. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | user6618 | When do we have documented exposure to angels? | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 17:29 | history | answered | Baby Seal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |