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Deceitful Truth and Truthful Deceit * 125 God formed Adam” ( Genesis 2 : 7 ) , the two occurrences of the letter yod in wayyi ṣ er signifying the good and evil inclinations, which correspond to the attributes of judgment and mercy and the divine names to wh ich they are attached . After affirming the underlying unity of these inclinations, Abulafia differentiates between them by arguing, in the spirit of the rhetoric of Ecclesiastes, that we must set aside a time for eac h one separately . In the continuation, he attempts to retrieve something of the unity when he emphasizes that the worship of God ( avodat ha - shem ) , which is the study of Torah for its own sake, requires that one place the two forces in the gradation of truth . But this formulation falls short of the bolder claim that we have documented from other passages in his writings, a claim that assaults the dipolar character of rational truth by assuming the congruence of truth and deception in their incongruence . On the o...
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