DAVID BIRNBAUM SUMMA METAPHYSICA
DAVID BIRNBAUM PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(as introduction to this particular appendix, first let us take one more quick look at the Baal Shem Tov’s philosophy…..
see lead paragraph
on the Baal Shem Tov’s doctrines
(a.k.a. the BESHT’s doctrines)
Elements of Besht’s doctrines
Jewish Encyclopedia Online, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
view.jsp?artid=18&letter=B (accessed October 5, 2009)
“The foundation-stone of Hasidism as laid by Besht is a strongly marked pantheistic conception of God. He declared the whole universe, mind and matter, to be a manifestation of the Divine Being; that this manifestation is not an emanation from God, as is the conception of the Kabbalah, for nothing can be separated from God: all things are rather forms in which He reveals Himself…”
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