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Hi, I just listened to the Judaism Demystified podcast on God doing the impossible. Comments were turned off so I'm leaving leaving a comment here instead. I'm not sure I understand how you can make the statement that a person cannot believe in concepts that are impossible to the mind (eg square circle) when Rambam himself posits such things - eg the belief in free will while maintaining divine foreknowledge or even the concept of divine knowledge itself which in yesodei hatorah 2:10 Rambam stated that the mind cannot conceive of God being 3 things which are one (ugh oh!)

הוּא הַיּוֹדֵעַ וְהוּא הַיָּדוּעַ וְהוּא הַדֵּעָה עַצְמָהּ הַכּל אֶחָד. וְדָבָר זֶה אֵין כֹּחַ בַּפֶּה לְאָמְרוֹ וְלֹא בָּאֹזֶן לְשָׁמְעוֹ וְלֹא בְּלֵב הָאָדָם לְהַכִּירוֹ עַל בֻּרְיוֹ

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