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Exploring the Unity of the Creator and His creations

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Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz

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not talking about one thank you so much Stephen we're talking about God's Unity we're not talking about God as one in the category of gods we're talking about God's Unity as one and nothing else that we're all inside of God right now like we explained one of the most famous pieces of zoyar which is God is one but not in a sequence of numbers in a sequence of numbers one is a big number or a small number would you like number or a small number would you like to have one in your bank account or something more than that probably more than that right one that one in a sequence of numbers is the smallest number but one in spiritual terms is the greatest number because it excludes everything else there's one and nothing else when we say that Hashem is we mean one and nothing else that's called hardcore monotheism if you know what I'm saying that's what the Jews brought to the world we didn't Jews brought to the world we didn't bring oh you know there's one God that's like that's like soft core stuff hardcore monotheism is God is one there's nothing but God and we're in this series now where we're explaining how that's all bringing us to the midst of loving Hashem because you notice right after we say Shema what does the Torah say they have to when you can get to a level of unity

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  1. 0:00not talking about one thank you so much Stephen we're talking about God's Unity we're not
  2. 2:03that's why they have to comes naturally as an expression of Hashem that's where we're at
  3. 4:35what an aleph is all about he knows the secrets he knows the secrets of the
  4. 7:09and he so to speak is creating the world we said through the Hebrew letters and
  5. 9:12so back to our analogy if you can appreciate this analogy that when God creates the
  6. 12:20all come from and therefore low year is do not have any other lowercase G I.E
  7. 14:53very apropos is you could have two people in there you know they've been dating for
  8. 16:56okay that's the idea of light coming in and a person has to be ready for
  9. 19:31infinite infinite plus anything equals you guessed it that's right you can't Plus on to infinite
  10. 22:06of reality because finite existence cannot start itself smoothing you're born to a mother it's not

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