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Who is God? Part 2

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the nature of God and systematic learning in this…

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the nature of God and systematic learning in this shiur.

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I'm gonna continue tonight from what I had done and it was last week whose God less because part one and of course tonight will be part two you know I chose this topic because it's a topic that hardly anybody speaks about for obvious reasons but the truth is it's a critical topic it's very crucial because listening you know the revarnished learn God we prayed him all the time right we think about him hopefully all the time and he's obviously the centerpiece if I may use that word the entire creation right Wow so like I said then last week I said it's amazing how little we know of God you know and not only that but what's funny is that everybody's got his own conception of who God is you know if he's a safari and then maybe is wearing a turban if they with turbans if he's a Hasidic God then of course he's wearing extremal right and so on we tend to view you know God in terms of what we feel is our value system or what's important and so on you know and that's what I really come to really correct because who the rabona some is is absolutely astonishing now last week I went to three I I had the analogy of an elevator we were going to an elevator we go down one floor it opens up and we have a certain perception of God you know we're going down and I supposed to being up you know and at that perception if you recall I said that the rivana sum is absolute oneness which means that a being of the nature of God cannot be duplicated it is existentially impossible for there to be two beings like God and I wanted to those ideas last week so God doesn't

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  1. 0:02I'm gonna continue tonight from what I had done and it was last week whose God…
  2. 6:19menachem cannot fathom what that means because we've never seen existence separate from a thing an…
  3. 12:28and we know why because if his existence that he can bring anything out of nothing…
  4. 18:45created that - it was he had actually create the rules of reality which we live…
  5. 25:00his garbs that he dons and he wears you see now as far as we're concerned…
  6. 31:28anyway in that sense yes but anyway now we've really don't you destroyed the third level…
  7. 37:41that you see but he does and therefore he creates five realities which are all other…
  8. 44:16five of them one of course is our chordoma cardamom about Sheila's Brio it's eerie nausea…
  9. 50:28no reason why God and God never revealed what he's doing in his spare time you…
  10. 56:37when it says I know I saw the eye has never beheld it says that everything…

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