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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #13

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem, given on 12/29/2012 in Lakewood,…

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem, given on 12/29/2012 in Lakewood, NJ.

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with this year i'm going to complete actually the first paragraph of the hachem it's not really completion but it certainly goes into the last area uh which is critical on who is god it's something it's an it's a level of understanding which in many ways is unknown um i had mentioned that there are many different things to know about the urbanization and it's all summarized in the word called echo one the concept of one oneness and i mentioned also that that there are different uh dimensions of the concept of oneness when you talk about when you say that god is one normally we think of the fact that he's one and he's not true but i had mentioned that it's much true but i had mentioned that it's much more profound than that first concept i had mentioned in defense the sense that he's wanted not to is that he is absolutely one which means that they cannot be true they cannot be so therefore what does that mean that means existence does not allow a being of the qualities of god does not allow of the qualities of god does not allow two it only allows one so god is absolutely one not relatively one very important concept you know if you ever ask somebody well it's emotionally one yeah but it's not because he's lucky you know many people don't realize that no they cannot be two of that type of being that's number one first concept of that's called absolute oneness

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  1. 0:12with this year i'm going to complete actually the first paragraph of the hachem it's not…
  2. 6:23who is perfect which means no limitations no dependencies no deficiencies god is not limited in…
  3. 12:37literally we do not exist and the greatest mystery of all is we and we cannot…
  4. 18:50i'm a worm okay but even a worm is something much you know because he understood…
  5. 25:05the eshva the version says i think you're shy as bringing brings it down via me…
  6. 31:38but there is god god is not perfect perfection is also because perfection is a neighbor…
  7. 37:46what that is look god does not remember god does not exist in time i don't…
  8. 43:57notes or frequencies that's really what it is right it's all it is but if the…
  9. 50:08whatever i did conforms to that when it conforms to that so that has to mean…
  10. 56:16so it's not that you exist more somehow reality is more and so on but it's…

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