Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 37:2

According to what I have written, this clearly explains what we indicate in the text of the blessing, “In His goodness, He constantly renews the work of creation every day.” The term “He renews,” means exactly what it says: for there is no day comparable to another in [the realm] of the Most-High Source. This is written in the book Nefesh ha-Hayyim, Sha’ar 2:13 pertaining to Tikkunei Tefillah.²⁰I found this statement of Nefesh ha-Hayyim in Sha’ar 1, chapter 2, where R’ Hayyim Volozhiner states, “If He, may He be blessed, were to remove His influence from them [His creations] for even a single moment, they would become utter nothingness. This [concept] is similar to what the Men of the Great Assembly instituted in the liturgy: ‘In His goodness He renews daily, perpetually, the work of creation.’ The word ‘perpetually’ is to be taken literally as every single instant. Proof of this is explicitly written in Psalms (136:7), ‘To Him Who makes great luminaries’; [the verse] does not state [Who] made, but ‘[Who] makes.’” In Sha’ar 2, chapter 13, R. Chayyim Volozhiner discusses the way in which prayer influences the creations in the Heavenly realm. He writes, “Every time we pray, it causes new formations in the arrangement of the [Heavenly] worlds and forces…. From the time that the prayers were set in order [by the Men of the Great Assembly] until the arrival of our Redeemer, may he come speedily in our days, there never was, nor will ever be, one prayer like another prayer… [similarly, a person’s own prayers] differ each day from what he [ever prayed before] or whatever he will pray in the future.” That is, the creations in the Heavenly realm above change daily, due in part to the prayers of man, and are constantly renewed. Even though in [the realm] under the sun there is nothing new within the nature of creation, nevertheless [in the realm] above the sun, there is a certain degree of change and renewal. This renewal is achieved through the variations in the combining of His Names, blessed be He, which is the origin of new laws before the Holy One blessed be He. This [concept] is brought by our sages in Bereshis Rabbah 49: “There is not a single day that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not originate a new law in the Heavenly Court, as it states, ‘Hear attentively the fury in His voice, and the sound that emanates from His mouth.’”²¹Job 37:2. God does not, Heaven forbid, change any of the Torah laws that He has given us to teach and practice, for decisions about Halachah is “not in [the hands] of Heaven.”²²Deut. 30:12. See Tractate Bava Metzia 59b, describing how R. Eliezer, through the use of miracles and a heavenly voice, attempted to convince R. Yehoshua and the sages that the halachah was in accordance with his view. His opinion was not accepted; as R. Yehoshua stated, “[The Torah] is not in Heaven.” [The interpretation of this Midrash] is that before God, may He be blessed, [i.e., in His Heavenly Realm, He] changes the combinations [of His holy names] and the nature of creation in whichever manner.