13 Principles of Faith - #2: The 10 Plagues - G-d Introducing Himself - Rebbetzin Raquel Kirszenbaum

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

Okay, great. Let's go. So, we started to speak about principle number two. Pretty much we said God is one. Oneness doesn't mean the one as that we think. It means there's nothing else like him. There's no point of reference. We cannot count. God is not only one in number, but in his existence, in the way that he is, right? Pretty much we said this is why there's no way that we could say God is not good. God is bad. God is this. God is not. Because everything becomes everything is God. This is why we said when we said the Shema, we said with our eyes closed because our idea is that when you're saying the Shema, you're accepting God over yourself and you're saying everything comes from God. But it's very hard to see God as the source of everything, right? And I told you I'm going to throw at you a bomb, right? But not yet. But what does it mean? It means God is one. Everything that happens to you in life comes from the same source. Therefore, by definition, being that everything comes from the same source, it must all be good. It must all must all be godly because really it all comes from God. This is why you close your eyes and you say, "God, if I'm honest with myself and I see what's going on in the world, I wouldn't really be able to say that you're the one, right? And therefore, I close my eyes and I know

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