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[Music] hi friends welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore a different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you new approaches to Timeless Jewish Ideas I'm your host D bashevkin and we are continuing our exploration of the yish K in Jewish thought and Jewish practice and that phrase that R quotes is God Is liban Shel is the heart of the Jewish people God as the heart of the Jewish people oruk actually sources this to shasham Raba the midash on shirim in shirim Raba in the fifth chapter in the second paragraph We have the phrase of course I'll translate asked where do we find that God has called The Heart of the Jewish people and the answer from the 73rd chapter it comes from the following verse where it says [Music] in God is the rock is the anchor of my own mind and my portion my place forever a moving verse I've always like wondered what does that actually mean that God is the heart of the Jewish people it's a fascinating in phrase I have a few different approaches and kind of like how to make sense of that statement God is the heart of the Jewish people but I wanted to suggest one thing specifically as we introduce our next guest and that is one of the unique characteristics of God is God's ability to contain contradictions my Mones famously writes that God is able to be both all knowing and also Grant human beings free will God within the nature of God you're able to subsume you're able to hold contradictory
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