Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:14:31 +0000
Subject: Re: The Near
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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RickRecently:

> The Kabbalah analyzes the nothing or apeiron prior
> to creation with its concepts of understanding and
> wisdom. Nearness [atzilut] has no shadow [a-tzel],
> no image [a-tzelem]. The concealed 'great face' of
> Being is accessed by its near 'small face' we are.

And, the kabbalistic term of the 'en-sof' translates roughly as 'without
end' seemingly similar to the a-peiron of Anaximander (which Heidegger sees
rather than 'without limit or bound' as 'the repelling of all limits' in
which we can hear the appeal, the ringing of the not becoming of a finalised
thing, rather something more akin to the so-called heraclitean fluxing that
never becomes constan but [is] difference-qua-difference). [This] en-sof
cannot be thought in terms of being or non-being (i.e., [it] neither is nor
nor not-is since [it] [is] the be-ing of beings...

"All the words of a language cannot explain [en-sof]. Not even the silence
of a language can reveal [en-sof]." [Charles Ponce, 'Kabbalah']

So how in the world does the near come by, near itself?

regards

mP






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> The Kabbalah analyzes the nothing or apeiron prior
> to creation with its concepts of understanding and
> wisdom. Nearness [atzilut] has no shadow [a-tzel],
> no image [a-tzelem]. The concealed 'great face' of
> Being is accessed by its near 'small face' we are.