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Radak on Genesis : Creation, Humanity, and Torah ■ 183 on what ] he saw, he inferred with the aid of his wisdom that the world had a temporal generated it new in the wake of utter beginning ; [ that is ] , God, may he be blessed, 3 nothingness when in his wisdom he saw fit to do so, bringing it into existence ex nihilo . [ Thus ] , after providing instruction concerning wisdom, stating, “Fortunate is a person who has discovered wisdom” ( Prov 3 : 13 ) , [ Solomon proceeds to ] exalt wisdom by stating, “The Lord founded the earth with wisdom . ” It is possible to explain the bet of be - ִhokhmah as an instrumental bet ( bet ha - ‘ezer ) — [ i . e . , “ by means of wisdom” ] —akin to the bet in “By you ( bekha ) we gore our enemies” ( Ps 44 : 6 ) and others like it . This would be metaphorical, because God and his wisdom are one and the same : it is not the case that he is one thing and his wisdom another thing the way it is with human beings, on whom wisdom, after not being present, [ i...
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