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Cover -- The Principles Of Judaism -- Copyright -- Dediction -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Avoiding A Paradoxical Preface -- 1.1. Introducing The Principles -- 1.2. A Paradoxical Preface -- 1.3. The Apophaticism Of Saadya Gaon And Maimonides -- 1.4. Religious Experience -- 1.5. Route 1: True Contradictions -- 1.6. Route 2: Non-fundamental Truth -- 1.7. Route 3: The Tractatus -- 1.7.1. Apophaticism As Illuminating Falsehood -- 1.7.2. Therapeutic Falsehood -- 1.7.2.1. Fallibilism And The Preface -- Part I Creation -- 2 Creatio Ex Nihilo 2.1. The Doctrine Of Creatio Continua -- 2.1.1. Philosophical Considerations -- 2.1.1.1. The Argument From The Nature Of Matter -- 2.1.1.2. The Argument From The Concept Of Possibility -- 2.1.1.3. The Argument From The Nature Of Time -- 2.1.1.4. The Argument From God's Rationality -- 2.1.1.5. The Argument From God's Immutability -- 2.1.1.6. Arguments From Perfection P -- 2.1.1.7. A New Argument From Permanentism -- 2.1.1.8. Freedom And Eternity -- 2.1.2. Cosmological Considerations -- 2.1.3. Biblical And Traditional Considerations -- 2.2. The Beginning Of Time 2.2.1. Cosmological Considerations For The Beginning Of Time -- 2.2.2. Philosophical Considerations For The Beginning Of Time -- 2.3. Ex Nihilo Or Ex Materia? -- 2.3.1. Creation According To Gersonides -- 2.3.2. The Gersonidean Dilemma -- 3 Idealism Ex Nihilo -- 3.1. Berkeley, Better, Besht -- 3.2. From Theism To Idealism -- 3.2.1. Argument 1: From Omnipotence -- 3.2.2. Argument 2: From God's Perfect Rationality -- 3.2.3. Argument 3: From God's Goodness, And Rationality -- 3.3. Tzimtzum And The Problem Of Creation -- 3.4. Non-literal Tzimtzum -- 3.5. A Gersonidean Problem Of Creation 4 Hassidic Idealism Responding To Problems -- 4.1. Problems With Hassidic Idealism -- 4.2. Response To Problem One: Free Will -- 4.2.1. The Meaning Of Freedom -- 4.3. Response To Problem Two: Ontological Significance -- 4.4. Response To Problem Three: Evil -- 4.5. Response To Problem Four: Contradictions -- 5 Hassidic Idealism Some Hidden Benefits -- 5.1. Jewish Nothing-elsism -- 5.1.1. Interpretation 1: Non-dualist Pantheism -- 5.1.2. Interpretation 2: Priority-monistic Panentheism -- 5.1.2.1. The Gunk Argument -- 5.1.2.2. The Truthmaker Argument -- 5.1.2.3. The Emergence Argument 5.1.2.4. The Nomic Argument, And The Argument From Internal Relatedness -- 5.1.3. Interpretation 3: Hassidic Idealism -- 5.2. The Problem With The Sefirot -- 5.2.1. To Be Or Not To Be A Fictional Character -- 5.2.2. Clark Kent And Superman -- 5.2.3. Solving The Problem With The Sefirot -- 5.3. Hassidic Idealism, Brains In Vats, And Religious Language -- 5.4. Religious Significance -- Part Ii Revelation -- 6 What Is The Torah?the Internal Problem With The Revelation -- 6.1. What Is The Torah? Defining The Problem -- 6.2. The Heavenly Torah And The Ontology Of Literature Samuel Lebens. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.