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Abraham Maimuni on Bereishit

Supercommentary

Our human understanding can never comprehend G-d, though we  can meet and (in some  sense) know Him in contemplation, experience, and by His gift.  Fully understanding the  paradoxes and often distressing appearances of  His  creation is utterly beyond us. For  the Sufi: certainty is forever inaccessible, and  the  most we can hope  to reach is  the  state of "Perplexity" (Hayrah)....knowing that we know nothing.    

 (Nachman Davies)