The Mystical Letter Hei - Part 4: Is G-d a He or a She? - Rabbi Yaakov Marcus

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[Music] we're at the NEBOSH line we're doing the mystical Hebrew alphabet series and where we left off last time was masculine means to give our word effect outside of yourself and feminine means to take something work on it raise it to our higher level and we were discussing why masculine words typically in Hebrew grammar lacked the ability to have that hey that integration of physical and spiritual together and feminine words typically end in the hay which represents integrating the physical spirits together and as a step-by-step process of answering that question we're redefining in a broader level masculine and feminine which is more than just sexual differentiation and gender the way we were taught growing up masculine and feminine turrible applies to everything because Torah has no neutral gender and therefore we have the side of giving which is Hesed that's a masculine interaction and the rules limitations which enable you to take something to a higher level that is a feminine interaction which leads us to insights in Judaism that will make more sense once we have these two definitions and one is why does God use gendered names in the Torah if God has no gender now let's start with the premise God has no gender how do we know God oh maybe God is a you know when I teach on college campuses one of the most common questions I'm asked is why rabbi do keep calling God a he maybe gods a she it's a very common question and the answer obviously is God it's not a he or she gods in is God is God has no gender now what's the logic behind understanding that God has no gender let's say you're new at learning Torah still instinctively it makes sense God has no gender why the answer is that God is infinitely one infinite oneness means

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1. 0:03[Music] we're at the NEBOSH line we're doing the mystical Hebrew alphabet series and where we…
2. 2:08no front no back no right no left no up no down right just one so…
3. 4:11she and the answers like this what do God's names really describe in other words God…
4. 6:49and that's why there is a there's a very famous feminine name where we would refer…
5. 8:51relative to that relationship with God so you see the Jewish people can change gender depending…
6. 11:23out and your brains going hey it makes no sense whatsoever but there's nowhere for God…
7. 13:29down of course cut out which I'm glad you didn't ask me because I really wanted…
8. 15:31you look at a blue pen do you see godliness you see no no you see…
9. 18:06your free will if you use it properly then you'll thin the mask and it'll feel…
10. 20:14are the Jewish people we said most of the time were feminine relative to God except…

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