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| Jul 8, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | Baby Seal | Perhaps you mean to describe a reality. God is directly interacting with the world, and he's doing so by himself, from infinite to finite. And angels are simply puppet strings and links in a chain from infinite to finite? Perhaps your answer is that the premise of the question is flawed because it ascribes more sentience and autonomy to angels than there actually is? | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 17:28 | comment | added | Baby Seal | So I think the issue with that understanding, avner, is that it implies that God needs angels to interact with this world, which is the core of the question. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 16:49 | comment | added | avner | I believe that the reason is that for an infinite being to interact with a finite creation which is so unrelated to it, there needs to be progressively less and less spiritual entities.This process is called Hishtalshulus, with the constelations being 1 link. 4 rabbis went up to pardes and only Rabbi akiva remained, Rav yaakov meir Shachter explains that the angelic being they saw was so almost infinite that it was inconcievable that there was a being greater then it, only rabbi akiva said, if this is under god, how amazing must god be. The ramchal states this concept in derech hashem. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | Baby Seal | Good source, but the question is kinda two-pronged. This addresses in part the need for angels, but not why God doesn't do things himself! | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 17:35 | history | answered | avner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |