What Happened at Sinai #8 (Part 2)

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

see as we say in the image of elohim in the image of god and uh and um why do we choose that name of god that you know we're in the image of god we're betsalam elokim but why why that name so he explains to us that the name elokim it that the name elokim it means the master of all powers in the universe that's that's what that name implies that everything that we see you know i once heard this presente the the speaker said it's in in a certain sense it's not the best uh it seems like a bad choice of words to say let's say beratious bharara kim veray sheet bharati in the beginning elokim created while elokim is actually plural so it sounds like there's more than one god right there's and and certain religions right there's and and certain religions have taken the idea of god and split it up into into three and things like that right so so why why is it in the plural so but what it really means is that all the powers that you see in the world are all elohim they're all from the same source they're all from god the source the master of all powers that's that's what that name connotes and uh and he explains we could read it here and he explains we could read it here the third paragraph he god blessed be his name as during the time when all the worlds were created created and materialized them x nihilo next ex nilo something from nothing with his infinite powers so it continues since then every day and truly every moment all the powers

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1. 0:00see as we say in the image of elohim in the image of god and uh…
2. 2:02and truly every moment all the powers that make them exist structure them and sustain them…
3. 4:37and adds holiness and light to them and the opposite is also true that by his…
4. 6:44and to bring kedusha to bring holiness into into the world and into god's creation and…
5. 9:15every person was was created for for a purpose and to be able to to accomplish…
6. 11:50realize the first five and especially you know the existence of gog and gaga's creator and…
7. 13:55testifying falsely against him to have him killed to falsely inform on someone to give someone…
8. 16:27another great sage and he taught the thong he said mark well three things and he…
9. 18:30to to grow and develop ourselves is to recognize the greatness that's within each of us…
10. 21:08like uh scare scary version or uh more negative to which which is important too but…

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